An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAnd so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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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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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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