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Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Holiness, Source

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Pope John Paul II
Truth, Wings, Two

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.

Pope John Paul II
Ecosystems, Generations, Attention

I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization... No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.

Pope John Paul II
Church, Energy, Moments
Pope John Paul II (1991). “Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate”

The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the face of Christ emerge and the voice of Christ be heard? For it is only when his face is seen and his voice heard that the world will know the glad tidings of our redemption. This is the purpose of evangelization. And this is what will make the Internet a genuinely human space, for if there is no room for Christ, there is no room for man.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Men

Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world

Pope John Paul II
World, Sacred, Host

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Pope John Paul II
Sake, Love And Responsibility
Pope John Paul II (2006). “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body”

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.

Pope John Paul II
Struggle, Passion, Hatred

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

Pope John Paul II
Giving, Faithful, Enemy

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

Pope John Paul II
Religion, Church, Lovers

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 in God Himself

Pope John Paul II
Keys, Names, Roots

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Pope John Paul II
Life, Mean, Self

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.

Pope John Paul II
Responsibility, America, Example
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

Pope John Paul II
Order, Life And Death, Abortion

The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Pope John Paul II
Blessed, Earth, Way

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

Pope John Paul II
Thinking, Two, Tragedy

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Pope John Paul II
Hard Work, People, Evil

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

Pope John Paul II
War, Catholic, Absence

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

Pope John Paul II
Christian, Holy Eucharist, Thursday
Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This enables her to train us and to mold us with the same care, until Christ is ''fully formed'' in us... Why should we not once more have recourse to the Rosary, with the same faith as those who have gone before us?

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Home

I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people live in inhuman conditions and many are literally dying of hunger. It is not possible to announce God the Father to these brothers and sisters without taking on the responsibility of building a more just society in the name of Christ.

Pope John Paul II
Brother, Father, Responsibility

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

Pope John Paul II
Church, Culture
Pope John Paul II (2002). “Pope John Paul II in My Own Words”, Gramercy Books

Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

Pope John Paul II
Children, Motherhood, Self
John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.154, CUA Press

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

Pope John Paul II
Inspiring, Earth Day, Environmental

Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.

Pope John Paul II
Rights, Catholic, Age
Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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