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A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Pope John Paul II
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
— Pope John Paul II
A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.
— Pope John Paul II
War is a defeat for humanity.
— Pope John Paul II
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
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
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Pope John Paul II
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
— Pope John Paul II
From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others
— Pope John Paul II
We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II
— Mahmoud Abbas
An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.
— Shelley Berkley
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.
— Pope John Paul II
In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!
— Pope John Paul II
Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
— Pope John Paul II
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
— Pope John Paul II
Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Pope John Paul II
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
— Pope John Paul II
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
— Pope John Paul II
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
His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.
— Chris Matthews
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
— Pope John Paul II
Another name for peace is development.
— Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!
— Red Buttons
Never again war. Never again hatred and intolerance.
— Pope John Paul II
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.
— Pope John Paul II
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
— Pope John Paul II
None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.
— Pope John Paul II
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
— Pope John Paul II
He was alone in his wonderment,
amoung creatures incapable of wonder
for them it was enough to exist and go their way. — Pope John Paul II
amoung creatures incapable of wonder
for them it was enough to exist and go their way. — Pope John Paul II
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
— Pope John Paul II
Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.
— Pope John Paul II
Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.
— Pope John Paul II
Knowledge must then lead to education in self-control.
— Pope John Paul II
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
— Pope John Paul II
I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.
— Chris Matthews
Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.
— Pope John Paul II
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
— Pope John Paul II
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Pope John Paul II
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
— Pope John Paul II
The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
— Pope John Paul II
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
— Pope John Paul II
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
Man is a continuum, a totality and a continuity -
so it cannot be that nothing remains! — Pope John Paul II
so it cannot be that nothing remains! — Pope John Paul II
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
— Pope John Paul II
We are the sum of the Father's love for us
— Pope John Paul II
It's too early for a Polish pope.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Pope John Paul II
Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete
— Pope John Paul II
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
— Pope John Paul II
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
— Pope John Paul II
The only way to peace is forgiveness.
— Pope John Paul II
The body, in fact, and it alone is capable of making visible that which is invisible; the spiritual and the divine.
— Pope John Paul II
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
— Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.
— Pat Robertson
The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
— Chris Matthews
Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?
— Chris Matthews
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
— Pope John Paul II
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
— Pope John Paul II
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
— Pope John Paul II
Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!
— Pope John Paul II
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
— Pope John Paul II
Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Pope John Paul II
It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful ...
— Pope John Paul II
George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!
— Red Buttons
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
— Pope John Paul II
The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
— Pope John Paul II
The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery ... is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
— Pope John Paul II
It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
— Pope John Paul II
Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
— Pope John Paul II
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?
— Pope John Paul II
The interior life is the spiritual life. It focuses on truth and the good. It
— Pope John Paul II
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
— Pope John Paul II
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.
— Pope John Paul II
Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II,
— Fulton J. Sheen
All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.
— Pope John Paul II
A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
— Pope John Paul II
Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
— Pope John Paul II
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
— Pope John Paul II
Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.
— Pope John Paul II
Become who you are.
— Pope John Paul II
Tell the people the truth will set you free.
— Pope John Paul II
Hands are the heart's landscape.
— Pope John Paul II
We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.
— Pope John Paul II
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
— Pope John Paul II
Man always travels along precipices ... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Pope John Paul II
Man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, can fully find himself only through a sincere gift of himself.
— Pope John Paul II
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
— Pope John Paul II
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
— Pope John Paul II
We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Pope John Paul II