Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL IINone are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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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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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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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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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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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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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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