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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.

Pope John Paul II

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Life Matter Return
I 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 II

Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Men Spirit
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Praying Reading Scripture
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Christian Suffering
We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Given Love People Unconditional
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communion Important People
To reach peace, teach peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Peace Reach Teach
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
It 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 II

Challenges Inspire Levels
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 II

Beautiful Jesus Living Self True
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

God Men Order Peace
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Civilization Hands Heart Uplifting
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Family Inspiration
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Kindness Long Waiting
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Past War

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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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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