It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOnly faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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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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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
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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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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
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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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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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