Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIEvery effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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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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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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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 purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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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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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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