Pope John Paul II famous quotes

The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Believe #Mean #Church

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Faith #Jesus #Real

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Sacrifice #Men #Self

Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Christ #Risking Your Life #Capable

Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Jesus #Son #Sacrifice

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Faith #Struggle #Inspiration

From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!
-- Pope John Paul II

#Son #Gone #Surrender

May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar
-- Pope John Paul II

#Jesus #Feet #World

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Family #Faith #Inspiration

St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Men #May #Care

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Evil #Catholic #Enemy

Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Love #Real #Commitment

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Jesus #Heart #Mountain

Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….
-- Pope John Paul II

#Responsibility #Exclusion #Doe

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Inspirational #Hate #Ignorance

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Maturity #Expression #Church

Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Commitment #Demand #Gods Will

The future starts today, not tomorrow.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Dream #Inspiration #Future

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Doe #Complaining #Forget

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Attitude #4th Of July

America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Beautiful #Blessed #Greatness

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Family #Selfish #Lying

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Mean #Pleasure

No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Independent #Action #Sometimes

For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting....
-- Pope John Paul II

#Faith #Children #Flower

Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Taken #Light #People

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
-- Pope John Paul II

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Prayer #Powerful #Sacrifice

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Son #Catholic #Mary

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Light #Hatred #Darkness

The only way to peace is forgiveness.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Forgiveness #Way

It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Mistake #Fall #Democracy

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Jesus #Useless #Matter

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Prayer #Sacrifice #Desire

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Men #Catholic #Chaste

Evangelization through the Eucharist, in the Eucharist, and from the Eucharist - these are three inseparable aspects of how the Church lives the mystery of Christ and fulfills her mission of communicating it to all people.... In addition to the preaching of the message, the consummation of evangelization consists in the building up of the Church, which has no real existence without the sacramental life culminating in the Blessed Eucharist
-- Pope John Paul II

#Real #Blessed #People

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Men #Treasure #Talent

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Courage #Catholic #Mediocrity

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Use #Persons #Treated

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Greatness #Tests #Way

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Freedom #Justice #Expectations

May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
-- Pope John Paul II

#May #Looks #Christ

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Faith #Giving Up #Doubt

Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a civilization of use, woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance to parents, the family an institution obstructing the freedom of its members.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Faith #Children #Inspiration

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Freedom #Hands #Trying

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Family #Children #Common

A nation that kills its own children has no future.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Children

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Men #Dignity #Duty

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Art #Waste #Talent

Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Perfect #Soul #Age

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Faith #Inspiration #Love Is

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Brother #Way #Beloved

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Religious #Communication #Men

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Peace #War #Problem

True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Lying #School #Mean

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Choices #Humanity #Conscious

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Leader #Political #Religion

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Reality #Men #Challenges

War is a defeat for humanity.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Peace #War #Humanity

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Family #Way #Salvation

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Responsibility #America #World

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Pain #War #Humanity

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Peace #War #Men

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Love #Family #Anniversary

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Justice #Violence #Social

The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Attitude #Exercise #Profound

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Heart #Men #Law

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Anniversary #Loyalty #Honesty

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Moving On #Confidence #Godly

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Silly #Stupidity #Catholic

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Song #Sweet #Catholic

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Country #Historical #Doe

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Depression #God #Spiritual

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Family #Children #Home

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Science #Errors #Catholic

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.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Hard Work #People #Evil

The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on a stand so that people may see its light and give praise to our Heavenly Father.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Father #Light #Giving

Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Religious #Atheist #Long

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Love #Husband #Commitment

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Home #Giving #People

To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Evil #Giving #Soul

That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Greatness #America #Abortion

To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Rights #Pro Life #Impossible

The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Battle #Devil #Alive

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Goal #Target #Life Is

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Honesty #Forgiving #Sin

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Doors #Christ

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Adventure #Wonderful #Christ

We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery... we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Faith #Children #Inspiration

The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease
-- Pope John Paul II

#Jesus #Waiting #Church

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

#Mean #Faithful

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
-- Pope John Paul II

#War #Past #Humanity

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Prayer #Simplicity #Depth

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Mercy #Source #Mankind

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Sports #Cardinals #Skis

Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Jesus #Blessed #Waiting

The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Serenity #Magnificence #Speak

Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all
-- Pope John Paul II

#Determination #Compassion #People

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Christian #Suffering #Today

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
-- Pope John Paul II

#Faith #Inspiration #Mean