Pope John Paul II Quotes

• To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

  Pope John Paul II

• There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

  Pope John Paul II

• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  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

• The 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 II

• The 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 II

• The 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.

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• 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

• The future starts today, not tomorrow.

  Pope John Paul II

• The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

  Pope John Paul II

• Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.

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• Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

  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

• Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

  Pope John Paul II

• Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.

  Pope John Paul II

• Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

  Pope John Paul II

• I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

  Pope John Paul II

• I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

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• 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.

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Birth:	18th May, 1920
Death:	2nd April, 2005
Nationality:	Polish
Profession:	Priest

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