Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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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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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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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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