John Paul II Quotes
We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.
The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.
Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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.
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
