In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIGod is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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The greatness of work is inside man.
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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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.
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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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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 Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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