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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFurthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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.’
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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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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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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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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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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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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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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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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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