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.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
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In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
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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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The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
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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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Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
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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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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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You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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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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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
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The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
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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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In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
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