All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture. — 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 human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way… — 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
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
Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs… — 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
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to… — 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
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and… — 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 Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times. — 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 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