We were not the ones to lay the foundations. It was He who created us. We must receive ourselves from his hand. Many men of our time are no longer willing to accept this fact: that we are as we are, that is, with certain characteristics, with a certain prior history, at a certain stage of the world, in a certain social and cultural condition. To say yes to myself; to say yes to the fact that God causes me to live here and now, thus and not otherwise; to say yes to my own limitations, but also to say yes to you, my neighbor, to the fact that he was created by God as he is: all of this inevitably forms part of our yes to God.
-Blessed John Paul II
