May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIOnly the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
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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.
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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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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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You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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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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Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
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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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