The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIt is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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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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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Another name for peace is development.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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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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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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