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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Church must breathe with her two lungs!
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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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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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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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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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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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 cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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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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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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