Quotes from Pope John Paul II
Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.
- Pope John Paul II
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
- Pope John Paul II
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
- Pope John Paul II
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
- Pope John Paul II
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
- Pope John Paul II
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
- Pope John Paul II
The 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
Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.
- Pope John Paul II
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
- Pope John Paul II
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
- Pope John Paul II
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
- 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.
- Pope John Paul II