To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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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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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Another name for peace is development.
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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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 Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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