It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOnly the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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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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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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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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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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