God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIGod made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.
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 IIThe historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe only way to peace is forgiveness.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILife is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
POPE JOHN PAUL IILife with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMay you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe ecological crisis is a moral issue.
POPE JOHN PAUL III have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
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 IIMan must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.
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 II