Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIJesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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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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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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