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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

Pope John Paul II

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
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Facts Moral Responsibility
The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Littles Pornography Too Much
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

Children Pride World
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Family Salvation Way
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Hate Hatred
The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Environmental Issues Moral
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 II

Faith Inspiration Responsibility
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Cfs Feet Shoes
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Believe Jesus Running
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Let Religion Science Tell
God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Creating God Joy Made
Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Capable Christ Life Risking Your
What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Brother Secret Spokes
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
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Praying Reading Scripture

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