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 IIIs not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
-
-
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The only way to peace is forgiveness.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
In the depths of the human soul… the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
POPE JOHN PAUL II







