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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.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: People | Clicks: 144 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine...

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Love | Clicks: 120 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 147 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Work | Clicks: 131 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it...

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Liberty | Clicks: 160 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Secret | Clicks: 160 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore prove ultimately futile.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 0 | Fav

War is a defeat for humanity.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: War | Clicks: 191 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Violence | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a...

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: History | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Family | Clicks: 340 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Nation | Clicks: 140 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 124 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of...

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 132 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Nation | Clicks: 154 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 133 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: History | Clicks: 191 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Family | Clicks: 235 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Author: Papa John Paul II (1920 - 2005) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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