Culture Quotes by Pope John Paul II

18 Culture quotes by Pope John Paul II

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The late pontiff often linked spiritual truth with cultural expression, urging a dialogue between belief and the world. These 18 quotations reveal his vision of a culture rooted in dignity, solidarity, and moral responsibility.

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The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

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All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

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Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

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May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

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The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing…

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The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore,…

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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended…

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The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for…

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If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune…

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Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this…

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The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of…

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Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable…

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While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a…

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Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation…

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Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values…

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The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in…

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But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a…

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Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

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The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper…

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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

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And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the…

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“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex nihilo sui…

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The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation…

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Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but…

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Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?

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Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so…

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Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used…

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The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has…

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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every…

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