Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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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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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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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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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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