The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWhen man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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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 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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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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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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Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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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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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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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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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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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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Another name for peace is development.
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