“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.”
― Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination
― Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination
“For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.”
― Select Letters
― Select Letters
“Prayer is making space available for God to do beautiful things with your life.”
― Beauty: A Path to God
― Beauty: A Path to God
“If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives...and not take personally what they do to us.”
― My Struggle with Faith
― My Struggle with Faith
“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.”
― Gratefulness, The Heart Of Prayer: An Approach To Life In Fullness
― Gratefulness, The Heart Of Prayer: An Approach To Life In Fullness
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