Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through… — 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
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