If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
More Pope John Paul II Quotes
-
-
The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
True 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 II -
You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.
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 ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
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 -
In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands… and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
POPE JOHN PAUL II