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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Pope John Paul II

A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Persons Treated Use
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Greatness Inspiration
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Family Inspiration
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hate Inspirational Love
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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Economic Tests Workers
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Calculate Catholic Complaining Love Simply
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hatred Passion Struggle
Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Creative might Negative
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Matter Philosophy Views
Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Heaven Men Sex
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Forever Love
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Child Children Family Newborn
Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Eye Suffering
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Continence Life Mean Self
[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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Age Perfect Soul
Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Commitment Mean Self

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

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