Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMarriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
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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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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
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Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
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Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
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Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
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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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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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Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
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