Catholic Quotes by Pope John Paul II

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

— Pope John Paul II

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

— Pope John Paul II

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

— Pope John Paul II

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.

— Pope John Paul II

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

— Pope John Paul II

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

— Pope John Paul II

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.

— Pope John Paul II

There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.

— 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

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

— Pope John Paul II

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it…

— Pope John Paul II

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

— 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

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

— 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

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

— 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…

— Pope John Paul II

Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able…

— Pope John Paul II

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the…

— 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…

— Pope John Paul II

Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the…

— Pope John Paul II

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of…

— Pope John Paul II

Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic…

— 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…

— 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…

— Pope John Paul II

For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go…

— 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…

— Pope John Paul II

Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not clearly tell you so. For it was Jesus…

— Pope John Paul II

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal,…

— 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…

— Pope John Paul II

While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a…

— Pope John Paul II

There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be…

— Pope John Paul II

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

— 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

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

— 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…

— Pope John Paul II