Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITreating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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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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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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