Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the… — 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
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge… — 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… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and… — 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… — 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
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does… — 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
May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by… — 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
