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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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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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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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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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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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