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.
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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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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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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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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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 great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Know what you are talking about.
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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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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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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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