Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIs not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery…is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
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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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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
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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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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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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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