I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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 greatness of work is inside man.
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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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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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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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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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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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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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
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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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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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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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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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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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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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