A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA 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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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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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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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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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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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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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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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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