Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. (Pope John Paul II)
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive. (Pope John Paul II)
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 grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. (Pope John Paul II)
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. (Pope John Paul II)
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)
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)
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. (Pope John Paul II)
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. (Pope John Paul II)
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)
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. (Pope John Paul II)
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. (Pope John Paul II)
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. (Pope John Paul II)
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. (Pope John Paul II)
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity. (Pope John Paul II)
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. (Pope John Paul II)
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