Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITake away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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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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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.
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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.’
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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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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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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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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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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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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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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