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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILove 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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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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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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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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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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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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