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True living is not found in one's self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the

True living is not found in one's self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.

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Beautiful, Jesus, Self

But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.

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Too Much, Inspirational Cancer, Sometimes

Hands are the heart's landscape.

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Heart, Hands, Landscape
Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II), Pope John Paul II (1979). “John Paul II: The Encyclicals in Everyday Language”

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

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Goal, Target, Life Is
Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

To reach peace, teach peace.

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Peace, Teach
Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.

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People, Excess, Levels
Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

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Faith, Inspiration, Unique
Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

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Religious, Communication, Men

It's too early for a Polish pope.

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Christianity, Pope, Polish

On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.

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Justice, Political, Peaceful

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

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Leader, Political, Religion

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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Mother, Memories, Sacrifice

Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a civilization of use, woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance to parents, the family an institution obstructing the freedom of its members.

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Faith, Children, Inspiration

What will you do with your life? What are your plans? Have you ever thought of committing your existence totally to Christ? Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?

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Jesus, Thinking, People

This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist

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Years, Two, Flesh

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

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Sports, Skis, Cardinals
Quoted in St. Petersburg Times, 7 Sept. 1987

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

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Art, Men, Tasks
Letter to artists, w2.vatican.va. April 04, 1999.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

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Peace, War, Humanity

In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

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Catholic, Soul, Action

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

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Prayer, Simplicity, Rosary

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

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Moments, Holy, Mass

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

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Challenges, Inspire, Levels
Pope John Paul II (2007). “Pope John Paul II: A Reader”

The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs from the feast. You must take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. And you must treat them like guests at your family table.

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Brother, Order, Substance
Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

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Love, Life, Husband
Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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

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Faith, Inspiration, Grace

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