Top 380 Pope John Paul II Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are.”

— Pope John Paul II

52. “Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.”

— Pope John Paul II

53. “Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.”

— Pope John Paul II

54. “You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human – the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.”

— Pope John Paul II

55. “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

56. “Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.”

— Pope John Paul II

57. “The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.”

— Pope John Paul II

58. “A person’s rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”

— Pope John Paul II

59. “Freedom exists for the sake of love.”

— Pope John Paul II

60. “Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.”

— Pope John Paul II

61. “What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?”

— Pope John Paul II

62. “There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.”

— Pope John Paul II

63. “There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.”

— Pope John Paul II

64. “Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.”

— Pope John Paul II

65. “Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.”

— Pope John Paul II

66. “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

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

— Pope John Paul II

68. “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

69. “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.”

— Pope John Paul II

70. “The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called “from the beginning” to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine.”

— Pope John Paul II

71. “The Rosary is my favorite prayer.”

— Pope John Paul II

72. “Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?”

— Pope John Paul II

73. “When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

74. “The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.”

— Pope John Paul II

75. “True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.”

— Pope John Paul II

76. “Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.”

— Pope John Paul II

77. “Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!”

— Pope John Paul II

78. “There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.”

— Pope John Paul II

79. “The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.”

— Pope John Paul II

80. “The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.”

— Pope John Paul II

81. “Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”

— Pope John Paul II

82. “The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.”

— Pope John Paul II

83. “Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.”

— Pope John Paul II

84. “Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.”

— Pope John Paul II

85. “The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.”

— Pope John Paul II

86. “The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on a stand so that people may see its light and give praise to our Heavenly Father.”

— Pope John Paul II

87. “People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.”

— Pope John Paul II

88. “The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.”

— Pope John Paul II

89. “The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.”

— Pope John Paul II

90. “It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species.”

— Pope John Paul II

91. “Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.”

— Pope John Paul II

92. “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

93. “Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.”

— Pope John Paul II

94. “An important day in a young person’s life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.”

— Pope John Paul II

95. “Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete.”

— Pope John Paul II

96. “Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.”

— Pope John Paul II

97. “The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.”

— Pope John Paul II

98. “Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.”

— Pope John Paul II

99. “Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.”

— Pope John Paul II

100. “Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.”

— Pope John Paul II