The worst prison would be a closed heart.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
-
-
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
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 -
Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
I 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 II -
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
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 -
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
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 -
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
POPE JOHN PAUL II