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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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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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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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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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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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