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 IIViolence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Another name for peace is development.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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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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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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