The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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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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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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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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