The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITrue living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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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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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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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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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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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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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. 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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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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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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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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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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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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