To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
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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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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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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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