Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAllow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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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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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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