The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIf He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
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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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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
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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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Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
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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 worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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