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Wisdom of the Day | Jun 09, 2017
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Pope John Paul II

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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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My God, I need fear nothing but sin. For to lose you, my God, is to lose all.
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other guy to die.
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Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.
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Life can survive only because of the generosity of other lives.
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If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
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Some people come in your life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
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The cross is the school of love.
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The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness.
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We are called to live not as one without others, above or against others, but with and for others.
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Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.
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A single act of love makes the soul return to life.
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Come near to God and he will come near to you.
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The best gift anyone can give to a friend is to pray for him.
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The soul is known by its acts.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ, God forgave you.
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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
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Finding God in all things.
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The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.
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I have no imagination. I cannot picture God the Father. All that I can see is Jesus.
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Everything smaller than heaven bores us because only heaven is bigger than our hearts.
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God is Love.
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Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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One must know man and human things in order to love them. One must love God and divine things in order to know them.
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Peace is the product of justice and love.
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
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What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.
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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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Rejoice! Hidden within your life is a seed of resurrection, an offer of life ready to be awakened.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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Creativity is intelligence having fun.
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Peace is a craft: it is made day by day.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.
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My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.
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No Christian needs to feel lonely or useless.
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God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.
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Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.
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Peace begins with a smile.
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Sometimes in our lives, tears are the lenses we need to see Jesus.
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You can’t go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Even when alone, be cheerful, remembering always that you are in the sight of angels.
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Let all that you do be done in love.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: Not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.
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Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
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When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.
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