It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
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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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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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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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
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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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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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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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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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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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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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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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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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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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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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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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