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 IIWar should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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The 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.
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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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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.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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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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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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