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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.

Pope John Paul II

The 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Inspiration Responsibility
We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Christian Giving
For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Heart Inspiration
I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Church Energy Moments
The Family that prays together, stays together.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Rosary Together
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Biblical People Tasks
Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Faith Inspiration Men
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Heart Horizon Today
The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Environmental Issues Moral
The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Matter Philosophy Views
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Hatred Light
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian People School
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Artist Beauty Talent
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Darkness Tired World
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Environmental Pattern Profound
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 II

Thinking Tragedy Two

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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