[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDo you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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