I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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