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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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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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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Another name for peace is development.
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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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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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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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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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