The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My desire is for the young people of the entire world to come closer to Mary. She is the bearer of an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex nihilo sui… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus? — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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