True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIBeauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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