It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
POPE JOHN PAUL IISocial justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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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 nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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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.
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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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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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