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Pope John Paul II Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways.
Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

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

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously ... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.

Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.

But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.

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

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

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

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

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

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

There is no true peace without fairness , truth , justice and solidarity .

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.

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

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

Christ is the measure of every age.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

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

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God ...

You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!

May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.

Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

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.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Christianity proclaimed from the first the equality of all men and women before God.

Only a socially just country has the right to exist.

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

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

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

The Rosary is my favorite prayer.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

As I look back, I see how all things are connected: today as yesterday, we find ourselves no less deeply caught up in the same mystery.

The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

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

Another name for peace is development.

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

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

Become who you are.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Man always travels along precipices ... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.

Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness ... he must not forget that he is a person.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

The path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

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 problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.

The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery ... is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

The interior life is the spiritual life. It focuses on truth and the good. It

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

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

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

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good ...

If you want peace, work for justice.
If you want justice, defend life.
If you want life, embrace truth.

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love

Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.

love is enthusiasm rather than pensiveness

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

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

Knowledge must then lead to education in self-control.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

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.

I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.

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

Open your minds and hearts to the beauty of all that God has made and to His special, personal love for each one of you.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.