Quotes from 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
Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.
- Pope John Paul II
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
- Pope John Paul II
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
- Pope John Paul II
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
- Pope John Paul II
Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
- Pope John Paul II
God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.
- Pope John Paul II
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
- Pope John Paul II
Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.
- Pope John Paul II
The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.
- Pope John Paul II
Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.
- Pope John Paul II
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.
- Pope John Paul II