Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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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The greatness of work is inside man.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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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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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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