Quotes from Pope John Paul II
By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.
- Pope John Paul II
I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
- Pope John Paul II
Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.
- Pope John Paul II
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.
- Pope John Paul II
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
- Pope John Paul II
In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.
- Pope John Paul II
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
- Pope John Paul II
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
- Pope John Paul II
For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.
- Pope John Paul II
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.
- Pope John Paul II
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.
- Pope John Paul II
Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!
- Pope John Paul II