Pope John Paul II Quotes

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.

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

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.

How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.

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?

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

To reach peace, teach peace.

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

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

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.

There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.

Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.

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.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

Only a socially just country has the right to exist.

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.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.

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.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.

We are the sum of the Father's love for us

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

Let me go to the house of the Father.

The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.

Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.