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.
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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God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
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Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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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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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
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