Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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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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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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