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26 quotes
264th pope of the Catholic Church (1920–2005)
“Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.”
"Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history."
on Peace
"Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."
on Courage
"A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use."
on Love
"I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid."
on Hope
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
on Social Justice
"The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name"
on Identity
"A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
on Science
"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
on Family
"Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good."
on Relationships
"Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial."
"Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness."
on Faith
"The future starts today, not tomorrow."
on Time
"A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism."
on Democracy
"Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better."
on Education
"Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well."
on Life
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
"War is a defeat for humanity."
on Human Rights
"Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men."
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
on Freedom
