The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The drama of AIDS threatens not just some nations or societies, but the whole of humanity. It knows no frontiers of geography,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take… — 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
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