Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
POPE JOHN PAUL III encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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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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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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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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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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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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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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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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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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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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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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