Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIIn the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
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The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’
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Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
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The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
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The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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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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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
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Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
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If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
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Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
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