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 IIThe historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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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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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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