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Pope John Paul II

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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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The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope there is no dark without dawn nor storm without haven.
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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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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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Animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren.
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Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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The worst prison is a closed heart.
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Radical 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.
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To reach peace, teach peace.
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Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.
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To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.
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A good leader sees everything overlooks a great deal and corrects a little.
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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The worst prison would be a closed heart.
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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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To men and women there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason, and in this their nobility consists.
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We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching the absolute standard.
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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
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Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly… Do this in complete faith and confidence.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
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A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You the people must git it this soul.
Pope John Paul II
The great danger for family life in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure comfort and independence lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping ones word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priests inner maturity it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
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Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
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Violence is a crime against humanity for it destroys the very fabric of society.
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate extinguishing life in the name of the quality of life itself.
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There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
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War is a defeat for humanity.
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To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.
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Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
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Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.
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There is no true peace without fairness , truth , justice and solidarity.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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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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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth in a word to know himself so that by knowing and loving God men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.
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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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The future starts today not tomorrow.
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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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 earth will not continue to offer its harvest except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery that of the unborn.
Pope John Paul II
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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