“Yesterday was a dark day in the history of humanity, a terrible affront to human dignity. After receiving the news, I followed with intense concern the developing situation, with heartfelt prayers to the Lord. How is it possible to commit acts of such savage cruelty? The human heart has depths from which schemes of unheard-of ferocity sometimes emerge, capable of destroying in a moment the normal daily life of a people. But faith comes to our aid at these times when words seem to fail. Christ’s word is the only one that can give a response to the questions which trouble our spirit. 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. Christian hope is based on this truth; at this time our prayerful trust draws strength fro”
John Paul II“Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”
John Paul II“Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.”
Rami Ollaik, The Bees Road“I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”
John Paul II, Pope John Paul II: In My Own Words“On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" nature (cf. analysis of the "beginning"), to which a proportionate pyramid of values corresponds. On the other hand, "lust" limits this gamut, obscuring the pyramid of values that marks the perennial attraction of male and female.”
John Paul II, Purity of Heart: Reflections on Love and Lust / Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body in Simple Language, Vol. 2“The term 'person' has been coined to signify that a man cannot be wholly contained within the concept 'individual member of the species', but that there is something more to him, a particular richness and perfection in the manner of his being, which can only be brought out by the use of the word 'person'.”
John Paul II“Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.”
John Paul II“The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name”
John Paul II“Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.”
John Paul II“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.”
John Paul II