The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. — 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
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 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 person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day. — 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
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross? — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Image
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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