Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILove between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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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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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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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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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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