The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIHow can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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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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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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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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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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