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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 appropriate attitude.

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

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Attitude, Inspiration

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Greatness

Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Father, Inspiration

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

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Profound

For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Heart

The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other periods of history, our time is in need of that genius which belongs to women, and which can ensure sensitivity for human beings in every circumstance.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Loss

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

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Self
Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Love Is
Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.156, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the eternal pattern of the human "we", especially of that "we" formed by the man and the woman created in the divine image and likeness... Man is created "from the very beginning" as male and female: the life of all humanity - whether of small communities or of society as a whole - is marked by this primordial duality.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Men

Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Simple

In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Church
John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.171, CUA Press

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Men
Pope John Paul II (2006). “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body”

The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Spiritual, Inspiration

In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Vacation

The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Heart

We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is Saint Benedict's reminder to the Abbot of a monastery, inviting him to consult even the youngest members of the community: "By the Lord's inspiration, it is often a younger person who knows what is best".

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, People

We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls... Such an apologetic will need to breathe a spirit of humanity, that humility and compassion which understand the anxieties and questions of people.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Humility

Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Dream, Inspiration

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Love Is
Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Inspiration, Men

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

Pope John Paul II
Faith, Husband, Inspiration

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