Gift and Mystery Quotes

“Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.”
― John Paul II, Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination

“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.”
― John Paul II, Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination