The only way to peace is forgiveness.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITo believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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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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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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When 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.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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