to remember the past is to commit oneself to the future… and to remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man.

I ask carriers: ‘How well do I handle detention issues? Rate me on detention.’ Once you start talking about these topics, carriers realize that you’re not hiding from the issues.

deeply grieved by the fact that priests and religious have themselves caused such suffering and scandal among the young.

In those difficult times, we asked that His power might be poured into the hearts of men and women and that hope might be stirred in them. Is not all that happened at that time...

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange house but their own.

It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

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...

Let me go to the house of the Father.

If we see opportunities to improve relationships with shippers, we work with them.

I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.

I urge you to adopt a policy of zero tolerance for all offenders, whether they have abused one child or adolescent or many, whether past, present or future.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.

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 to the people.

Christ is truly risen! In him, today, we can overcome forces of evil.

While I pray for those who are hit by this scourge, I encourage those in the Church who carry out an invaluable service of acceptance, care and spiritual accompaniment to our brothers and sisters.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

He invites us to offer the Lord a dwelling in our souls and in our lives. Not only must we bear him in our hearts, but we must take him to the world, so that...

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you...

Please heed the words of our Holy Father: There is no place in the priestly ministry for those who harm children,

We exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

My thoughts are always on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where the religious community and many other people remain under siege after more than 22 days,

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

What shall I say? Everything that I could say would fade into insignificance compared with what my heart feels, and your hearts feel, at this moment.

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.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

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

The revolutions of 1989, … were made possible by the commitment of brave men and women inspired by a different and ultimately more profound and powerful vision: the vision of man as a creature of...

Christ opens the door to the pope.

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

If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light

The inalienable dignity of every human being and the rights which flow from that dignity – in the first place the right to life and the defense of life – are at the heart of...

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore… prove ultimately futile.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

The growth of summer volleyball camps in Sparta, Vernon and Hackettstown have helped increase awareness of the game throughout our area, … It used to be very tough finding new players in the past, but...

As I enter a new chapter in my twilight years, I can say with gratitude that I have given my very best to God and country,

for all the benefits he generously gave us.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder

War is a defeat for humanity.

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

I think (her outdoor track season) made her realize she can compete with the top girls in the state,

deep participation in their pain.