We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
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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May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
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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 problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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None are so poor that they have nothing to give…and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
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