Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIRespect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Once 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.’
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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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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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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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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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 ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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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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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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