Pope John Paul II Quotes And Sayings

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

“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

“Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.”
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“On Mahatma Gandhi, during a visit to India in 1986:”He was never a Christian and he never pretended to be a Christian, but I learned a lot from him.”"
– Pope John Paul II

“On Poland’s debate in 1996 on whether to liberalize abortion legislation: “A nation that kills its own children has no future. “”
– Pope John Paul II

“Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, By anyone.”"
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“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

“Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of

birth and the moment of death.”
– Pope John Paul II

“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

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

“Similarly, euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the quality of life” itself.”"
– Pope John Paul II

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

“Stupidity is also a gift from God, but one mustn’t misuse it.”
– Pope John Paul II

“The abuse which has caused this crisis is by every standard wrong and rightly considered a crime by society; it is also an appalling sin in the eyes of God. — To American cardinals summoned to Vatican during church sex abuse scandal, April 23, 2002.”
– 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

“The commandment you shall not kill even in its more positive aspects of respecting, loving, and promoting human life, is binding on every individual human being.”
– Pope John Paul II

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

“The evil of our times consists in the first place in a kind of degradation, indeed in a pulverization, of the fundamental uniqueness of each human person.”
– Pope John Paul II

“The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace.”
– Pope John Paul II

“The future starts today, not tomorrow. ”
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.”
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“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

“The Pope cannot remain a prisoner of the Vatican. I want to go to everybody…from the nomads of the steppes to the monks and nuns in their convents…I want to cross the threshold of every home.”
– Pope John Paul II

“The Pope’s last audible words, on hearing tens of thousands of young people singing in St. Peter’s Square as he lay in his deathbed, Friday, April 1, 2005: “I sought you out and now you come to me. Thank you.”"
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.”
– Pope John Paul II

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