The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIArtistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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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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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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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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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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