John Paul II Quotes

Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

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.

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.

This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.

The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.

Another name for peace is development.

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.

There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice

Open your minds and hearts to the beauty of all that God has made and to His special, personal love for each one of you.

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd 'calls His sheep by name.'

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.