Pope John Paul II Quotes And Sayings

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

“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

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

“Ask yourselves, young people, about the love of Christ. Acknowledge His voice resounding in the temple of your heart. Return His bright and penetrating glance which opens the paths of your life to the horizons of the Church’s mission. It is a taxing mission, today more than ever, to teach men the truth about themselves, about their end, their destiny, and to show faithful souls the unspeakable riches of the love of Christ. Do not be afraid of the radicalness of His demands, because Jesus, who loved us first, is prepared to give Himself to you, as well as asking of you. If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Christ is the sacrament? of the invisible God – a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ’s Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and–to repeat once again–Love, desires to justify Himself to mankind. He is not the Absolute that remains outside of the world, indifferent to human suffering. he is Emmanuel, God-with-us, a God who shares man’s lot and participates in his destiny.”
– Pope John Paul II

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

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good.”
– Pope John Paul II

“God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man’s free will. God does not redeem man against his will.”
– 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

“He was alone in his wonderment, among creatures incapable of wonder for them it was enough to exist and go their way.”
– 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 remains standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God’s prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.”
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the “external man.” When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.”
– Pope John Paul II

“In truth, a State whose society is not sovereign is no sovereign State at all. Such is the case when a society has no chance to decide the common good, and when it has been denied the basic right to share in power and responsibility”
– Pope John Paul II

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”
– Pope John Paul II

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

“It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Know what you are talking about.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Let me go to the house of the Father.”
– Pope John Paul II

“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

“Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.”
– Pope John Paul II

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

“Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.”
– Pope John Paul II

“Man cannot remain with no way out.”
– Pope John Paul II

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