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How 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.

Pope John Paul II

A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Persons Treated Use
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Inspiration Responsibility
Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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Example Friends Perfection Young
To reach peace, teach peace.
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Peace Reach Teach
The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Life Simple Way
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Atheist Culture Giving
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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Darkness Tired World
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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Faith Father Inspiration
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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Blood Faith Inspiration
You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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Fearless Needs World
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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Confined Culture Truth
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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Memories Mother Sacrifice
We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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Given Love People Unconditional
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Let Religion Science Tell
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Compatriots Home Kissing Mother
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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Adoration Blessed Christian Eucharistic
True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Lying Mean School
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Continence Life Mean Self
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Praying Reading Scripture
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Prayer Spiritual
If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Asks Giving Knows
The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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Heart Horizon Today
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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Holy Mass Moments
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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Catholic Past War
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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Men Talent Treasure
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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Catholic Crosses God Love
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Flesh Friend Thousand Two Years

How 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.

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How 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.

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