Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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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 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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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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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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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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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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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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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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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 question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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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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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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