Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWe are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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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.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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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.
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The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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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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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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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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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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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.’
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God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation… Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
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