The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists, it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence.

— Pope John Paul II

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Love can be reborn.

— Pope St. John Paul II

Christianity proclaimed from the first the equality of all men and women before God.

— Pope John Paul II

Human Love in the Divine Plan. God’s designs for the person, the designs of divine love for human love – this is the reality the theology of the body attempts to unfold on the basis of the teaching of Jesus.

— Pope John Paul II

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion. She listens to conscience and not to power, and in this way she defends the poor and the downtrodden.

— Pope John Paul II

This shows that history is not simply a fixed progression towards what is better, but rather an event of freedom, and even a struggle between freedoms that are in mutual conflict, that is, according to the well-known expression of St. Augustine, a conflict between two loves: the love of God to the point of disregarding self, and the love of self to the point of disregarding God.

— Pope John Paul II

The body reveals the person. This phrase tells us all there is to know about the body. Science can examine our flesh in minute detail, down to our cells and even our DNA. But no amount of scientific exploration can replace the truth that our bodies reveal us, giving form to our innermost being and unique personality. Our bodies are sacramental – they make the invisible visible.

— Pope John Paul II

The body, in fact, and it alone is capable of making visible that which is invisible; the spiritual and the divine.

— Pope John Paul II

The only thing that is demanded from the rational human being is that he does not destroy and squander these natural resources, and that he uses them with the moderation that will not impede the personal development of man himself and will guarantee for human societies a just and harmonious coexistence. In.

— Pope John Paul II

As I look back, I see how all things are connected: today as yesterday, we find ourselves no less deeply caught up in the same mystery.

— Pope John Paul II

Christ is the measure of every age.

— Pope John Paul II

Saint Thomas Aquinas explains how, with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, a person’s whole spiritual being becomes responsive to God’s light, not only the light of knowledge but also the inspiration of love. I have prayed for the gifts of the Holy Spirit since my youth and I continue to do so.

— Pope John Paul II

The Catholic tradition has always upheld human reason.

— Pope John Paul II

For this reason the Council was not first of all to condemn the errors of the time, but above all to strive calmly to show the strength and beauty of the doctrine of the faith.

— Pope John Paul II

Family must be the first school of peace.

— Pope John Paul II

Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.

— Pope John Paul II

The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists, it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence.

— Pope John Paul II

The more you give of yourself, the more you will find yourself.

— Pope John Paul II

Those who love much succeed in overcoming their fear.

— Pope John Paul II

My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you. My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you. My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you.51.

— Pope John Paul II

Not with the Cross of the Savior behind you, but with your own cross behind the Savior.

— Pope John Paul II
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