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Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

Pope John Paul II
Young Friends, Perfection, Example

We are the sum of the Father's love for us

Pope John Paul II
Father

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Pope John Paul II
Truth, Culture, Confined
Pope John Paul II (2007). “Pope John Paul II: A Reader”

The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

Pope John Paul II
Serenity, Magnificence, Speak

The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life who will proclaim, celebrate, and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. I renew the appeal I made ... for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.

Pope John Paul II
Taken, Evil, Pro Life
"A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World".

Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

Pope John Paul II
Law, Abortion, Killing

Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.

Pope John Paul II
Christian, Peace, War

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

Pope John Paul II
Atheist, Giving, Culture

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.'

Pope John Paul II
Hate, Hatred, Church
Pope John Paul II (1995). “Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995”, Herder & Herder

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.

Pope John Paul II
Suicide, Names, Catholic

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

Pope John Paul II
Catholic, Honor, Foundation

As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to feel the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and the support that will help them always to embrace life?

Pope John Paul II
Suicide, Life And Love, Sick
Pope John Paul II, Achille Silvestrini, Jerome M. Vereb (1999). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.318, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

Pope John Paul II
Dying, Vulnerable, Treats
Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2000.

To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously.

Pope John Paul II
Intense Training, Judging, Mind

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.

Pope John Paul II
Country, Socialist Countries, Historical
Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

Pope John Paul II
Tests, Economic, Workers

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

Pope John Paul II
Prayer, Giving Up, Light

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

Pope John Paul II
Issues, Environmental, Moral

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

Pope John Paul II
Christian, Care, Want
Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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.

Pope John Paul II
Love, Family, Anniversary

This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy. But it must fill our churches also outside the timetable of Masses. Indeed, since the Eucharistic mystery was instituted out of love, and makes Christ sacramentally present, it is worthy of thanksgiving and worship. And this worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed Sacrament, both when we visit our churches and when the sacred species are taken to the sick and administered to them

Pope John Paul II
Father, Blessed, Taken
Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be of comfort and hope to those who confide in him with faith and love; they look on him as the Emmanuel, God with us, who wished to dwell amongst us: his heart in our heart

Pope John Paul II
Jesus, Heart, Soul

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

Pope John Paul II
Tired, Darkness, World

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

Pope John Paul II
Humanity, Mosaics, Pieces

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