God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThis 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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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 universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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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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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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