The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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 cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. 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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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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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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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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