The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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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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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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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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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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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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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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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.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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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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