May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
POPE JOHN PAUL III hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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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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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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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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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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