Pope John Paul II Short Quotes

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Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!

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Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

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Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

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God assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman.

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In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

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I have looked for you. Now you have come to me. And I thank you.

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There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

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Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

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Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

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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 tree was already rotten. I just gave it a good shake and the rotten apples fell.
Of the Soviet Union

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To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.

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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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Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

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Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.

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From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

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God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

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None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

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Philosophy must obey its own rules and be based upon its own principles; truth, however, can only be one.

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You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

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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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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

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