Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDo not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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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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