The 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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDo not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
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The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
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A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
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The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
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Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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