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Wisdom of the Day | Apr 08, 2017
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Pope John Paul II

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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?
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I can, with one eye squinting, take it all as a blessing.
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Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often
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There is no panic in heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.
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If you pay attention to the heart, you will find you are close to the Lord and others
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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Nobody wants to be here, and nobody wants to leave.
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If you’re a dancer, study singing.
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves
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You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
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Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
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We are all kings in exile.
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There’s no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of all the millions who have been denied the privilege.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other?
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
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My home is heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.
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If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Jesus does not leave us alone. Because we are precious to him.
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Forgiveness sets our hearts free and allows us to start anew. Forgiveness gives hope. Without forgiveness, the Church is not built up.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.
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There are two forms of excess: to exclude reason and to admit nothing but reason.
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It is good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.
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You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
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Faith without reason risks being cut off from everyday life.
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Faith is like wi-fi: It’s invisible yet it allows you to connect with what you need the most.
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Man … cannot make a worm, and yet he will make gods by dozens.
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Oh God of dust and rainbows, help us to see that without the dust the rainbow would not be.
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One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.
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Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
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Grace…meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.
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God is the only source of inexhaustible energy.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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To pray is to spend time freely with God, just for the joy of being together. It is to love, because giving our time means giving our lives.
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Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much. ― Blaise Pascal
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There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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If lay people do not pray, or are content with merely superficial prayer, they are in danger.
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When you label me, you negate me.
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The person who flees prayer is fleeing everything that is good.
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God knows what is good for us, and that should be enough for us.
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You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Always pray and never give up.
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It is good that you exist.
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We all have meaning. We all have meaning in life. None of us is a “no.” We all are a “yes.”
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The confessional is the best place for a priest to be. If nobody comes, I can pray my breviary, or my rosary, or write a letter, or read a book, or take a nap.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughing and love are essential in our lives.
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Speak to him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears – of everything that concerns you.
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The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible!
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Let us not be confused by the talents and missions of other saints. Let us be the kind of saints we were created to be.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.
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A single ‘blessed be God’ in adversity is worth more than a thousand acts of thanksgiving in prosperity.
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What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God looks with love upon every one of us.
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Turn yourself round like a piece of clay and say to the Lord: I am clay and you, Lord, the potter. Make of me what you will.
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We are dust aspiring to heaven.
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Evangelization in our time will only take place as the result of contagious joy.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of him.
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Put yourself in God’s hands; he abandons no one.
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Hate no one. God never comes where there is no love for our neighbors.
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Be who you are, and be that well.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.
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