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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

Pope John Paul II

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Greatness Inspiration
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Communion Important People
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Economic Tests Workers
Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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Caring Effort September
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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Civilization Hands Heart Uplifting
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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Mean Pleasure Way
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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Catholic Past War
Young 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.
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Example Friends Perfection Young
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Hatred Light
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Justice Social Violence
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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Children Race Years
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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Faith Giving Inspiration
You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Fearless Needs World
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Facts Moral Responsibility
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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Country Example People Responsibility

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