Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOnce again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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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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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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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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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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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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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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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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