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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

Pope John Paul II

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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Hatred Passion Struggle
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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Faith Inspiration Reality
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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Fairness Justice Peace
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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Faith Holiday Inspiration
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Hope Nations People Without
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Heart Prayer Spiritual
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
Another name for peace is development.
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Challenges Inspire Names
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
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
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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Coffee Noon Slavery
Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Commitment Mean Self
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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Greatness Life Pro Tests
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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Lying Mean School
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Let Religion Science Tell
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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Countries Country Historical Socialist

[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

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