When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIWhen man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIDo you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
POPE JOHN PAUL IIYoung 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 IIThe 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 IIIn my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
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 IIMake your lives intensely Eucharistic.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIMay you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.
POPE JOHN PAUL IITreating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIA just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.
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.
POPE JOHN PAUL II