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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

Pope John Paul II

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Past War
Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Caring Effort September
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Father Inspiration
Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Football Important Subject
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Compassion Pain
None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Humanity Mosaics Pieces
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Mean Pleasure Way
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Humanity Men
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Father Jesus
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Expression God Maturity Servant
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Art Men Tasks
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Culture Death Life Love
A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Persons Treated Use
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Continence Life Mean Self
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Anniversary Family Love
The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christ Mother Mystery

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

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