The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Evangelization through the Eucharist, in the Eucharist, and from the Eucharist - these are three inseparable aspects of how the Church lives… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization... No believer in Christ,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex nihilo sui… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus? — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share
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 Copy Share
![“Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.” quote by Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e86/pope-john-paul-ii-485_abortion_taking-into-account-these-distinctions-i_590583.jpg)
