The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMan’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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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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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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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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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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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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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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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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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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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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