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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Family that prays together, stays together.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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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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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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