Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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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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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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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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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.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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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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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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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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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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