Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
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How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.
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Hands are the heart’s landscape.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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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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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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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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