Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILove consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
-
-
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
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 -
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
…if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
POPE JOHN PAUL II