The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMan matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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