None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThere 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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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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