Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
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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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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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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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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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