Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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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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The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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A 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 kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far 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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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