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"Do not be afraid; do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."
"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."
"The cemetery of the victims' past conflicts is vast."
"It is from your hands that peace must start, not from the hands of governments."
"Above all, the Pope prays for peace."
"If you want peace, work for justice."
"The future of the world and the Church passes through the family."
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"Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary."
"Remember that you are never alone, Christ is with you on your journey every day of your lives!"
"Do not abandon yourself to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
"The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God."
"War is a defeat for humanity."
"Only where there is mercy and forgiveness do the Heavens look down with benevolence."
"The future of the world and of the Church passes through the family."
"We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject."
"All human beings are called to find happiness and meaning in their lives."
"The worst evil is not the physical pain or suffering that might happen to us, but the moral evil that can damage our soul."
"What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return."
"The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of a peace that is based on justice and love."
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
"If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life."
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"Do not forget that true love sets no conditions. It does not calculate or complain but simply loves."
"Man cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself."
"It is our duty to help today’s young people learn how to live and to understand the value of life."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
"All human life is sacred, because from its beginning, it involves the creative action of God."
"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
"The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being."
"Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil."
"There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered."
"A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use."
"We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus."
"It is not enough to be known; one must be known for something."
"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."
"As the Father's self-communication in the Holy Spirit, and necessarily in His communication with man, is worked out within the dynamic unity of the Incarnation of the Word, sacramental sign and instrument of Trinitarian reconciliation, for this reason the Eucharist is the source and summit of the mystery of the redemption."
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"Karol Wojtyła leaves us in legacy a more moving than ever lesson of faith. In him we meet a witness of love for good and truth. He has been an artisan of true transformation of attitudes towards the depths of the spirit. Counting on the inspiration of Divine Providence and the blessing of the Virgin Mary, I strongly hope that the future will bring us the clothing of new Christians in blissful blessedness."
"One cannot really love... if one is not determined to act with practical love towards other people."
"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."
"Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."
"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."
"The worst prison would be a closed heart."
"This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops."
"It is possible to be neighbors not only in the geographic sense, but in a human and evangelical sense."
"I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid."
"The family, as intended by God, is the natural environment in which a new life can joyfully grow."
"Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."
"The future starts today, not tomorrow."
"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
"As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live."
"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."
"In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences."
"A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members."
"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."
"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."
"Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle."
"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."
"You are not made for comfort. You are made for greatness."
"It is not enough to offer someone a sandwich unless it is accompanied by the possibility of learning how to stand on one's own two feet."
"Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him."
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
"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 communion of persons."
"Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial."
"No one can change the world for the better by himself, but there is always one person who can inspire others to do so."
"It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you."
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