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.
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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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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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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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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