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“Thanks to meetings and discussions with experts in the natural sciences, with physicists and biologists as well as with historians, I have learned to appreciate the importance of those other branches of knowledge which involve the scientific disciplines; these are likewise capable of attaining the truth from different perspectives. The splendor of the truth–Veritatis Splendor–constantly needs to accompany them, enabling people to meet, to exchange ideas, and to enrich one another.”
― John Paul II, Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination

“As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.”
― David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, The Heart Of Prayer: An Approach To Life In Fullness

“I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.”
― Joseph F. Girzone, My Struggle with Faith

“Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.”
― John Paul II, Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination