John Paul II Quotes
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.
Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.
Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
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.
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar