From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFrom now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWe are the sum of the Father’s love for us
POPE JOHN PAUL III do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITrue holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
POPE JOHN PAUL IIChrist remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer…. Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIAre you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDarkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIReason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIBeauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIYou are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIFrom this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThis is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIForgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThrough the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
POPE JOHN PAUL II