Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIHolidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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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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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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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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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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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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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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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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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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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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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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