We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWe are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIt would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAre you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL IINone are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIYoung friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
POPE JOHN PAUL III kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMan matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWhat really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMan always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThis is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWar should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThere is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn 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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