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 IIWe are the sum of the Father’s love for us
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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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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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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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.
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Know what you are talking about.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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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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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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