"Christ is calling us and awakening in us a desire to make our lives something magnificent and beautiful."

St. John Paul II

Suffering is present in the world in order to release love, in order to give birth to works of love towards neighbor, in order to transform the whole of human civilization into a "civilization of love."

John Paul II, Salvifici Doloris, 30

I could see / the whole span of human love / and its precipitous edges. / When someone slips over such an edge / he finds it very hard to get back, / and wanders alone below the road he should be on.

Karol Wojtyla, The Jeweler's Shop, 53