The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of… — 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
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the… — 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
Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands...… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace. — 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 most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence. — 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
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for… — 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
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
Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream… — 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