What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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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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Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
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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.
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Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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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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The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
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Another name for peace is development.
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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
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