Church Quotes by Pope John Paul II

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Pope John Paul II

The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

— 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

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

— Pope John Paul II

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

— Pope John Paul II

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

...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

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

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

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