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• ...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.

  Pope John Paul II

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

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• Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Commitment, Abortion

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• And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

  Pope John Paul II

  Catholic, Suffering, Spirit

  Pope John Paul II (2007). “Pope John Paul II: A Reader”

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• Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure...a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan.

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  Home, Heart, Fire

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• God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd 'calls His sheep by name.'

  Pope John Paul II

  Unique, Sheep, Names

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• Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Catholic, Suffering

  Pope John Paul II, Carlos Rodríguez, John Troy (1993). “Visit of Pope John Paul II to Uganda: 5th to 10th February, 1993 : Gulu, Kasese, Soroti”

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• Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be ever more open to listening and accepting your Word. May they draw from the Eucharist a renewed commitment to spreading in society, by the proclamation of your Gospel, the signs and deeds of an attentive and active charity

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Jesus, Commitment

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• Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

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  Freedom, Justice, Expectations

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• We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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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 in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.

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  Running, Jesus, Believe

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• Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human
  society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the
  preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so
  that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent
  testimony of God's love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Marriage, Children, Couple

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• Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

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  War, Mean, Past

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

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• Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christ, Invisible, God Is With Us

  Pope John Paul II (2013). “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p.7, Knopf

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• Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine

  Pope John Paul II

  Son, Shining, Roles

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• Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

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  Commitment, Views, Said

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• When man turns his back on the Creator's plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.

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  Men, Order, Peace With God

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

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• Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

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  Christian, School, People

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• An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

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  Important, Life Is, Christ

  Pope John Paul II (2013). “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p.126, Knopf

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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 revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Faith, Inspiration

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.163, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• War is a defeat for humanity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

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• The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

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  Heart, Church, Eucharist

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• In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in offering to the Father for each of us; there is also the glory of the glorified body, which started with the Resurrection, and still continues in Heavenly union.

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  Father, White, Offering

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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 to the people.

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  Mean, Race, People

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• Confidently open your most intimate aspirations to the Love of Christ who waits for you in the Eucharist. You will receive the answer to all your worries and you will see with joy that the consistency of your life which He asks of you is the door to fulfill the noblest dreams of your youth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Dream, Doors, Worry

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