Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: ‘The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.
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The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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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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The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
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And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.
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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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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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