Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe only way to peace is forgiveness.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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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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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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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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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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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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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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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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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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It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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