Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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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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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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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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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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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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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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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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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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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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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
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