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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 II

Today, 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.
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Mean Nation Past War
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Family Salvation Way
Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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Host Sacred World
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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Life Sacred World
The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Breathe Church Lungs Two
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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Men Talent Treasure
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Catholic Song Sweet
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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Attempt Evil Men Rights
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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Moral Religious Would
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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Creating God Joy Made
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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Civilization Hands Heart Uplifting
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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Christian Forever Love
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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Desire Prayer Sacrifice
The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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Christian Humble Prayer
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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Commitment Denial Self
In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
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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Believe Church Mean
The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Life Simple Way
The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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Littles Pornography Too Much
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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Effort Humanity Saint
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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Child Children Family Newborn
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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Adoration Blessed Christian Eucharistic
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Humanity Peace War
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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Catholic Coincidence Design
An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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Christ Important Life
The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Feelings Persons Responsibility
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Children Jesus Theologian

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.

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