Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIYoung friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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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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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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