black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Pope John Paul II

Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Mean Nation Past War
To reach peace, teach peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Peace Reach Teach
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Family Home
Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Creative might Negative
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Commitment Denial Self
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Children Race Years
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies…If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Abortion Priorities Rights
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Justice
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Let Religion Science Tell
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Men Talent Treasure
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Family Independence Lying Selfish
Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Host Sacred World
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Catholic Men Suffering
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Mean Pleasure Way
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

Fabric Humanity Violence
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

God Relationship Want

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Pope John Paul II Quotes