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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.

Pope John Paul II

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Choices Evil Heart
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
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communication Men Religious
What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Baptism Done Prayer
Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Thinking Tragedy Two
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Itself Prevail Virtue
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hate Inspirational Love
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.
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Commitment Mean Self
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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Countries Country Historical Socialist
The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Feelings Persons Responsibility
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Beloved Brother Way
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Christian Suffering
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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Dying Treats Vulnerable
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Desire Men Women
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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Abortion Priorities Rights
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Praying Reading Scripture

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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