Pope John Paul II Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collation of Pope John Paul II quotes and sayings. Born Karol Jozef Wojty?a, he was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 16 October 1978 to his death in 2005.

“Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!”
– Pope John Paul II

“After his visit to his would-be assassin: “What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.”"
– Pope John Paul II

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
– Pope John Paul II

“And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.”
– Pope John Paul II

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

“Be not afraid.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid to welcome Christ and accept his power … Open wide the doors for Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of states, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilization and development.”
– Pope John Paul II

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

“Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters — members all of the same family — are able at last to live in peace.”
– Pope John Paul II

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

“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

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

“During his first public audience after dislocating his shoulder in 1993:”I’m all in one piece. I’m not dead yet.”"
– Pope John Paul II

“Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person. ~Evangelium Vitae, 1995″
– Pope John Paul II

“Faced with today’s problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Finally, true freedom is not advanced in the per missive society, which confuses freedom with licence to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace. 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

“Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.”
– Pope John Paul II

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

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

“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

“Hence in every case, a just wage is the concrete means of verifying the justice of the economic system… It is not the only means of checking, but it is a particularly important one and in a sense the key means.”"
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“I am a young person aged 83 — speaking to youths.”
– Pope John Paul II

“I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where millions of people live in inhuman conditions and many are literally dying of hunger. It is not possible to announce God the Father to these brothers and sisters without taking on the responsibility of building a more just society in the name of Christ.”"
– Pope John Paul II

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

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

“I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. ”
– Pope John Paul II

“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. ”
– Pope John Paul II

“I remember, above all, the Wadowice elementary school, where at least a fourth of the pupils in my class were Jewish. I should mention my friendship at school with one of them, Jerzy Kluger — a friendship that has lasted from my school days to the present. I can vividly remember the Jews who gathered every Saturday at the synagogue behind our school. Both religious groups, Catholics and Jews, were united, I presume, by the awareness that they prayed to the same God.”
– Pope John Paul II

“In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.”
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this [gay marriage] is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.”
– Pope John Paul II

“It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.”
– Pope John Paul II

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