Hands are the heart’s landscape.
POPE JOHN PAUL IISocial justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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