God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFrom Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. 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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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse 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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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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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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