A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIBe 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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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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Another name for peace is development.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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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.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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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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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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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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From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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