#om

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

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

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#against #anything #conscience #does #engraved

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate. ↗

— Rand Paul

#everybody #looking #participate #something #where

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

#alienation #away #basic #collectivism #countries

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

#aggressiveness #already #challenge #different #dominion

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#between #brother #complete #him #i

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#hope #i #important #important thing #most

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#beloved #bishop #christ #distant #english

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

#church #communications #confronting #employ #full