The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed. Pope John Paul II More Quotes by Pope John Paul II More Quotes From Pope John Paul II Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures. Pope John Paul II scripture reading praying Believers know that the presence of evil is always accompanied by the presence of good, by grace... Where evil grows, there the hope for good also grows... In the love that pours forth from the heart of Christ, we find hope for the future of the world. Christ has redeemed the world: "By his wounds we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5) Pope John Paul II inspiration faith heart 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. Pope John Paul II family home children With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Pope John Paul II christian people school The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. Pope John Paul II faithful nature land Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. 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 giving-up light prayer Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another. Pope John Paul II relationship-with-god our-relationship want The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are. Pope John Paul II creative animal men May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar Pope John Paul II feet world jesus Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. Pope John Paul II violence social justice Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind. Pope John Paul II mercy-of-god source mercy Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape. Pope John Paul II disappointment responsibility attitude Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness. Pope John Paul II holiness source prayer Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. Pope John Paul II darkness evil believe There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity. Pope John Paul II fairness justice peace Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus? Pope John Paul II people jesus thinking Around the world, we can see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Today, all men have a duty to show themselves worthy of the mission given them by the Creator by ensuring the safekeeping of that creation. Pope John Paul II generations men world Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God. Pope John Paul II dignity answers men Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom. Pope John Paul II catholic eye suffering War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. Pope John Paul II catholic war past
