May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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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 modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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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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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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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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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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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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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 Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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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 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 vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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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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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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