Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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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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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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