When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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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I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
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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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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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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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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
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The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.
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The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
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May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Know what you are talking about.
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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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