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 IIMan always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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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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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. 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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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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