Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
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Let me go to the house of the Father.
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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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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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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
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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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Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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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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Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
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Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
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The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
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