Pope John Paul II Quotes

Pope John Paul II Quotes

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

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.

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

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

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.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

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.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.

I plead with you-never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

Know what you are talking about.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

Merry Christmas!

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.

He was alone in his wonderment,
amoung creatures incapable of wonder
-for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

...all that is carried along
by the stream's silvery cascade,
rhythmically falling from the mountain,
carried by its own current-
carried where?

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

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.

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

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,

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

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

Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

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