"Christ knows our anguish best of all...Do not be afraid of God...insted invoke him, call him Father. God is with us. God, infinetely perfect, is not only with man, but He Himself became a man in Jesus Christ. Do not be afraid of God who became a man!"
- Pope John Paul II
as quoted in "John Paul The Great: Remembering A Spiritual Father" by Peggy Noonan