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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Pope John Paul II

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Coincidence Design
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Effort Humanity Saint
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Let Religion Science Tell
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Horizon Today
When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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God Men Order Peace
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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Faith Greatness Inspiration
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Creating God Joy Made
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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Action Catholic Soul
Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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Body Human Splendour
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
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Catholic Christian Suffering
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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Mean Pleasure Way
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
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Law Men
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

God Relationship Want
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Economic Tests Workers

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

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