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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

[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Age Perfect Soul
Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Men Sovereign Way
And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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Cfs Feet Shoes
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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Catholic Men Suffering
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Maturity Men Work
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Artist Beauty Talent
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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God Relationship Want
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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Faith Inspiration Men
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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Mean Nation Past War
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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Catholic Christian Suffering
The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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Heart Horizon Today
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Country Example People Responsibility
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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Dream Future Inspiration
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Attitude Consists Freedom Ought
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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Hatred Passion Struggle
A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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Persons Treated Use

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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