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War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

Pope John Paul II

Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Mean Nation Past War
The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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Church Men Spirit
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Prayer Spiritual
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Catholic Church Teaching
May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Feet Jesus Sacrament World
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Lying Mean School
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Church Lover Religion
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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Catholic Jesus Light
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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Environmental Pattern Profound
To reach peace, teach peace.
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Peace Reach Teach
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Children Jesus Theologian
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
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
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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Commitment Denial Self
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hate Inspirational Love
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Choices Evil Heart

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