From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILimitation 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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 priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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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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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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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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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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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 cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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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.
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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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