And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMarriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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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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It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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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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