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 IIMen and women will retain their sex in heaven
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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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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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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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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