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Inspiration Quotes by Pope John Paul II

47 Inspiration quotes by Pope John Paul II

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A quiet garden shows how silence can be a hidden treasure. Pope John Paul II reminds us that families are the core of good and evil, and that every person deserves dignity. He also invites us to look at mystery and love the simple moments, like watching a sunset.

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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness… he must not forget that he is a person.

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The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.

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Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.

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In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be…

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The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

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The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the…

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There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths…

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In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision…

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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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It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for…

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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the…

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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of…

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Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and…

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In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride…

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It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the…

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We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win…

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Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream…

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The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body,…

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Believers know that the presence of evil is always accompanied by the presence of good, by grace... Where evil grows, there the…

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The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine…

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The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and…

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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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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out…

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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our…

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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

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The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for…

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Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only…

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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…

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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and…

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You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and…

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Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed…

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The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom…

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Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not…

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For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go…

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In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today…

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We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us…

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Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons…

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In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that…

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We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of…

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Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

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The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper…

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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

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“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex nihilo sui…

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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…

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Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but…

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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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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so…

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Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used…

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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has…

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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…

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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

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