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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

Pope John Paul II

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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Commitment Denial Self
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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Communication Culture Humans
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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Hope Nations People Without
In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Giving Heart Reading
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Justice Social Violence
We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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Children Christian Giving
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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Greatness Life Pro Tests
If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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Asks Giving Knows
Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Men Way World
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.
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Thinking Tragedy Two
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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Choices Evil Heart
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.
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Faith Heart Inspiration
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Continuously God Heart Joy Prayer
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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Creating God Joy Made
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Maturity Men Work
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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Desire Men Women

In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

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