The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMay the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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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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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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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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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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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.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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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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