The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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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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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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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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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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[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.
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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.
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