[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at… — 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
The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness:… — 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
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The drama of AIDS threatens not just some nations or societies, but the whole of humanity. It knows no frontiers of geography,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in… — 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