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Having not had full access to the library over the last year, I have done more #spiritualreading than normal, which I can post now it is Lent. This was an interesting book by Pope JPII based on questions from a journalist for a television interview he was not able fit into his schedule.

Filled with wisdom. I have been afraid of reading this book for a while. Afraid that it'd be difficult, or over my head. But, in fact, it's very readable. Although I wish I had a deeper understanding of certain philosophical movements, I never felt like I was missing things. I could hardly put it down. Loved it.

"Significantly, the [Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium] also reminds us of the universal call to holiness in the Church. This vocation is universal and concerns each of the baptized, every Christian. It is always very personal, connected to work, to one's profession. It is an account rendered of the talents each person has received -- whether one has made God or bad use of them."

"God is always on the side of suffering. His omnipotence is manifested precisely in the fact that He freely accepted suffering.... The fact that He stayed on the Cross until the end, the fact that on the Cross He could say, as do all who suffer: My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? Mk 15:34, has remained in human history the strongest argument. If the agony on the Cross had not happened, the truth that God is Love would have been unfounded.

"STAT CRUX DUM VOLVITUR ORBIS (The Cross remains constant while the world turns)."

"Could God go further in His stooping down, in His drawing near to man?...In a certain sense God has gone too far!... Precisely because [Christ] called God His Father, because He revealed Him so openly in Himself, He could not but elicit the impression that it was too much...Man was no longer able to tolerate such closeness, and thus protests began."