The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
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Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
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The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
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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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Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
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Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
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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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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
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The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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We are the sum of the Father’s love for us
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