Top 516 Quotes & Sayings by Pope John Paul II
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
War is a defeat for humanity.
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.
Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
If you want peace, work for justice.
If you want justice, defend life.
If you want life, embrace truth.
There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live.
Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.
Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!
Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.
Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.
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