Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Know what you are talking about.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
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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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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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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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Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.
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Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
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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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…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
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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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Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
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To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues.
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