…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFreedom exists for the sake of love.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Know what you are talking about.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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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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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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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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