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 IIAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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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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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 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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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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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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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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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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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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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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