To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMay the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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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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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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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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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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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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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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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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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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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
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