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.
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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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
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It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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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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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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