Pope John Paul II

The future starts today, not tomorrow. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#starts #today #tomorrow

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#despair #easter #hallelujah #our #people

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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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. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#become #close #comfort #danger #fact

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#error #false #idolatry #purify #science

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#doing #freedom #having #like #ought

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

#act #binds #church #domestic #eventual

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

#both #children #each #family #joyful