Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
POPE JOHN PAUL III kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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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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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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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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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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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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