Crossing the Threshold of Hope Quotes

“Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.”
― Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope

“Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and--to repeat once again--Love, desires to justify Himself to mankind. He is not the Absolute that remains outside of the world, indifferent to human suffering. he is Emmanuel, God-with-us, a God who shares man's lot and participates in his destiny.”
― Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope

“Not with the Cross of the Savior behind you, but with your own cross behind the Savior.”
― Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope

“Furthermore, since he is weak and sinful, he often does what he detests and not what he desires.”
― Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope