Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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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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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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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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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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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 best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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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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