A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITo maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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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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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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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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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Know what you are talking about.
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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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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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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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