It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
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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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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
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What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return
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In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life
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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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[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
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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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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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The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
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