Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIToday, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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 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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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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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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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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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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Know what you are talking about.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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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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