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

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  Effort, Humanity, Saint

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “African Addresses”

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

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  Peace, War, Humanity

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• The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

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  Blessed, Earth, Way

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• I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people live in inhuman conditions and many are literally dying of hunger. It is not possible to announce God the Father to these brothers and sisters without taking on the responsibility of building a more just society in the name of Christ.

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  Brother, Father, Responsibility

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• the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself

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  Keys, Names, Roots

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• There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Grace

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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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  Hard Work, People, Evil

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• The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

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  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Thursday

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

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• Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

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  Children, Motherhood, Self

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.154, CUA Press

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• Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

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  Prayer, Holiness, Source

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• To reach peace, teach peace.

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  Peace, Teach

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

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• The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Unique

  Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Hands are the heart's landscape.

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  Heart, Hands, Landscape

  Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II), Pope John Paul II (1979). “John Paul II: The Encyclicals in Everyday Language”

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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.

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  Rights, Abortion, Priorities

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• Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.

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  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.37, CUA Press

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• The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

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  Life, Mean, Self

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• Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

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  Order, Life And Death, Abortion

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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.

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  Peace, War, Problem

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

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• Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.

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  Attitude, Sacrifice, Discipline

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

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  Prayer, Powerful, Sacrifice

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

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• It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.

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  People, Excess, Levels

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

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