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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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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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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of 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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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Another name for peace is development.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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