The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
POPE JOHN PAUL II…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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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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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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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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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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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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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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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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