A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDo not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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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.
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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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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.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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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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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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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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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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