...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.
Pope John Paul IIThe most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.
Pope John Paul IIThe ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Pope John Paul IIWhat does our generation owe to generations yet unborn? ...there is an order in the universe which must be respected, and... the human person, endowed with the capability of choosing freely, has a grave responsibility to preserve this order for the well-being of future generations.
Pope John Paul II