Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDarkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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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
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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