Pope John Quotes

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.

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.