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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Pope John Paul II

The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Abortion Priorities Rights
There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Dimension Littles Much Too
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Let Religion Science Tell
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Love Men Purity
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Matter Philosophy Views
What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Brother Secret Spokes
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Actors Humanity Order
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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Life Matter Return
Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Love Responsibility Sake
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
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Forever Love
Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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Capable Christ Life Risking Your
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Desire Men Women
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Biblical People Tasks
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Father Jesus
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Compassion Pain
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
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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Children Parent School
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Horizon Today
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Human Life
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Moral Religious Would
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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Evolution Mean Men Theory
[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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Age Perfect Soul
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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Catholic Death Dying
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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Christ Important Life
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Prayer Rosary Simplicity
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Hatred Light

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