Religion Quotes by Pope John Paul II

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

— Pope John Paul II

Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?

— Pope John Paul II

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

— Pope John Paul II

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

— Pope John Paul II

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

— Pope John Paul II

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

— Pope John Paul II

“Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which it soars to the truth.”

— Pope John Paul II

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

— Pope John Paul II

I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization... No believer in Christ,…

— Pope John Paul II

The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private.…

— Pope John Paul II

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not…

— Pope John Paul II

The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions,…

— Pope John Paul II

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering…

— Pope John Paul II

There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not…

— Pope John Paul II

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

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow…

— Pope John Paul II

An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism…

— Pope John Paul II

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

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

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to…

— Pope John Paul II

Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in…

— Pope John Paul II

Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith…

— Pope John Paul II

New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that…

— Pope John Paul II

The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help…

— Pope John Paul II

The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion…

— Pope John Paul II

“Yesterday was a dark day in the history of humanity, a terrible affront to human dignity. After receiving the news, I followed…

— Pope John Paul II

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

— Pope John Paul II

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

— Pope John Paul II

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God...

— Pope John Paul II

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful...

— Pope John Paul II

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

— Pope John Paul II

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but…

— Pope John Paul II

The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not…

— Pope John Paul II

Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is…

— Pope John Paul II

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through…

— Pope John Paul II

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in…

— Pope John Paul II

And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the…

— Pope John Paul II

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

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward…

— Pope John Paul II

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy…

— Pope John Paul II