John Paul II, Love And Responsibility Quotes

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love.