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• 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 II

  Peace, War, Problem

  Message on the World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 08, 1999.

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• The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Abortion, Priorities

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• The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.

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  Struggle, Passion, Hatred

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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.

  Pope John Paul II

  Leader, Political, Religion

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• The Family that prays together, stays together.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Together, Rosary

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• The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

  Pope John Paul II

  Giving, Faithful, Enemy

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• It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Would Be, Moral

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• We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.

  Pope John Paul II

  Ecosystems, Generations, Attention

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• From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Moments, Holy, Mass

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• In 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.

  Pope John Paul II

  Catholic, Soul, Action

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• The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs from the feast. You must take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. And you must treat them like guests at your family table.

  Pope John Paul II

  Brother, Order, Substance

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

  Pope John Paul II

  Art, Men, Tasks

  Letter to artists, w2.vatican.va. April 04, 1999.

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

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Powerful, Sacrifice

  Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom exists for the sake of love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sake, Love And Responsibility

  Pope John Paul II (2006). “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body”

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• Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Saint

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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.

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, America, Example

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Pain, War, Should Have

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• Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world

  Pope John Paul II

  World, Sacred, Host

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• The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

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  Prayer, Simplicity, Rosary

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• Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

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  Travel, Men, Balance

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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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  Religious, Communication, Men

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• A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.

  Pope John Paul II

  Eye, World, Genocide

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• The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

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  Two, Church, Breathe

  Pope John Paul II (1995). “Ut Unum Sint: On Commitment to Ecumenism”

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• The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Discipline

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• God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

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  Creating, Joy, Made

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