The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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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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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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The greatness of work is inside man.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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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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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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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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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 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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[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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