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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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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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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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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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Another name for peace is development.
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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