Pope John Quotes

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?

Justice comes before charity.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.

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.

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

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.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about what you have tried and failed, But what is still possible for you to do. To live is to change.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

I am made to tremble and I fear!

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