John Paul II Quotes

Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.

It's too early for a Polish pope.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.

The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.

Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.

The greatness of work is inside man.

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

Merry Christmas!

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current--carried where?

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

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.