Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDo 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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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Artistic 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.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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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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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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.
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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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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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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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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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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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