America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more… — 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
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready… — 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
[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
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed… — 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
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
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — 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
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a… — 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
Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this… — 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
Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to… — 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
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
We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What does our generation owe to generations yet unborn? ...there is an order in the universe which must be respected, and... the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision… — 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
If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of… — 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
In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today… — 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
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
The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom… — 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
![“A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does not change depending on their circumstances.” quote by Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/93a/pope-john-paul-ii-485_animal_a-man-even-if-seriously-sick-or-prevente_2342630.jpg)
![“[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is no other human reality which corresponds more, humanly speaking, to that divine mystery.” quote by Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f97/pope-john-paul-ii-485_catholic_speaking-of-marriage-and-family-in-this_2258886.jpg)
![“Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.” quote by Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e86/pope-john-paul-ii-485_abortion_taking-into-account-these-distinctions-i_590583.jpg)
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