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 IIRadical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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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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The Family that prays together, stays together.
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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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Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
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What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
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In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.
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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
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It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.
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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
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Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
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Look, I can surely say by now that I’ve got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
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