Quotes from Pope John Paul II
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
- Pope John Paul II
Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
- Pope John Paul II
It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
- Pope John Paul II
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
- Pope John Paul II
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.
- Pope John Paul II
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
- Pope John Paul II
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
- Pope John Paul II
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons
- Pope John Paul II
The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.
- Pope John Paul II
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
- Pope John Paul II
The greatness of work is inside man.
- Pope John Paul II
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
- Pope John Paul II