Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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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 problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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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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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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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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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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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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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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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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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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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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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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