Pope John Paul II Quotes:
"It is Jesus that you seek when you
dream of happiness; He is waiting
for you when nothing else you find
satisfies you; He is the beauty to which
you are so attracted; it is he who provoked
you with that thirst for fullness that will
not let you settle for compromise; it is
He who urges you to shed the masks of a
false life; it is He who reads in your heart
your most genuine choices, the choices that
others try to stifle."
"It is Jesus who stirs in you the disire to do
something great with your lives, the will to
follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves
to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage
to commit yourselves humbly and patiently
to improving yourselves and society, making
the world more human and more fraternal."
"The future starts today, not tomorrow.
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and hallelujah
is our song."
"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."
"The earth will not continue to offer its
harvest, except with faithful stewardship.
We cannot say we love the land and
then take steps to destroy it for use
by future generations."
"Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied
with mediocrity. Put out into the deep
and let down your nets for a catch."
"I plead with you--never, ever give up
on hope, never doubt, never tire, and
never become discouraged. Be not afraid."
"A person's rightful due is to be
treated as an object of love, not as an
object for use."
"Know what you are talking about."
"Faith and Reason are like two wings
of the human spirit by which it soars
to the truth."
"True freedom is not advanced in the
permissive society, which confuses
freedom with license to do anything
whatever and which in the name of
freedom proclaims a kind of general
amorality. It is a caricature of
freedom to claim that people are free
to organize their lives with no
reference to moral values, and to say
that society does not have to ensure
the protection and advancement of
ethical values. Such an attitude is
destructive of freedom peace."
"The worst prison would be a closed
heart."
"As the family goes, so goes the
nation and so goes the whole world
in which we live."
"Do not be afraid to take a chance on
peace, to teach peace, to live
peace.... Peace will be the last word of
history."
"Have no fear of moving into the
unknown. Simply step out fearlessly
knowing that I am with you.
therefore, no harm can befall you: all
is very, very well. Do this in complete
faith and confidence."
"It is the duty of every man to uphold
the dignity of every woman."
"Love between the man and woman
cannot be built without sacrifices
and self-denial."
"We are not the sum of our
weaknesses and failures, we are the
sum of the Father's love for us and
our real capacity to become the
image of His Son Jesus."
"Love consists of a commitment
which limits one's freedom-it is a
giving of the self, and to give oneself
mea"ns just that; to limit one's
freedom on behalf of another."
"Not all are called to be artists in the
specific sense of the term. Yet, as
Genesis has it, all men and woman
are entrusted with the task of
crafting their own life; in a certain
sense, they are to make of it a work
of art, a masterpiece."
"Friendship, as has been said,
consists in a full commitment of the
will to another person with a view to
that person's good.
"Take away from love the fullness of
self-surrender, the completeness of
personal commitment, and what
remains will be a total denial and
negation of it."
"Limitation of one's freedom might
seem to be something negative and
unpleasant, but love makes it a
positive, joyful and creative thing.
Freedom exists for the sake of love."
"The Gospel lives in conversation
with culture, and if the Church holds
back from the culture, the Gospel
itself falls silent. Therefore, we must
be fearless in crossing the threshold
of the communication and
information revolution now taking
place."
"He was alone in his wonderment,
among creatures incapable of
wonder
--fir them it was enough to exist and
go their way."
"Faith and reason are like two wings
on which the human spirit rises to
the contemplation of truth; and God
has placed in the human heart a
desire to know the truth--in a word,
to know himself--so that, by
knowing and loving God, men and
women may also come to the
fullness of truth about themselves."
"This 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 nodes of living in order to
take up the challenge of making
Christ known in the modern
metropolis.
"Pope John Paul II taught that human
life is sacred, inviolable, and worthy of
protection from conception to natural
death, famously stating that a
"society's true greatness is measured
by how it treats its most vulnerable
members--including the unborn. ๐น
"Merry Christmas!
Pope John Paul II
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Pope John Paul II (Life)
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