Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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