Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAnd 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.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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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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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
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Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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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 saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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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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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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