The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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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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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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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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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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[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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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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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 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.
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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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