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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

Pope John Paul II

To reach peace, teach peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Peace Reach Teach
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Confined Culture Truth
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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Kindness Long Waiting
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Desire Men Women
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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Continuously God Heart Joy Prayer
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Choices Conscious Humanity
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Beloved Brother Way
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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Faith Heart Inspiration
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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Faith Inspiration Men
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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Faith Inspiration Responsibility
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Catholic Past War
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Continence Life Mean Self
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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Christian Compassion Pain
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Justice Social Violence
True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.
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Beautiful Jesus Living Self True
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Hate Inspirational Love

Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

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