Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMay 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
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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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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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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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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The 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.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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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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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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