Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe 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.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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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 ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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