Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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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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To reach peace, teach peace.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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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 most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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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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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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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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