Top 380 Pope John Paul II Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!”

— Pope John Paul II

102. “In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.”

— Pope John Paul II

103. “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

104. “Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.”

— Pope John Paul II

105. “Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.”

— Pope John Paul II

106. “The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.”

— Pope John Paul II

107. “The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!”

— Pope John Paul II

108. “Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.”

— Pope John Paul II

109. “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”

— Pope John Paul II

110. “Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.”

— Pope John Paul II

111. “See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little.”

— Pope John Paul II

112. “From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others.”

— Pope John Paul II

113. “The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.”

— Pope John Paul II

114. “Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.”

— Pope John Paul II

115. “Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.”

— Pope John Paul II

116. “Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”

— Pope John Paul II

117. “War is a defeat for humanity.”

— Pope John Paul II

118. “Know what you are talking about.”

— Pope John Paul II

119. “Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.”

— Pope John Paul II

120. “A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.”

— Pope John Paul II

121. “It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.”

— Pope John Paul II

122. “Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.”

— Pope John Paul II

123. “There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.”

— Pope John Paul II

124. “The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.”

— Pope John Paul II

125. “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

126. “The human person is a unique composite – a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.”

— Pope John Paul II

127. “Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.”

— Pope John Paul II

128. “Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.”

— Pope John Paul II

129. “Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.”

— Pope John Paul II

130. “In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in offering to the Father for each of us; there is also the glory of the glorified body, which started with the Resurrection, and still continues in Heavenly union.”

— Pope John Paul II

131. “St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.”

— Pope John Paul II

132. “The Church must breathe with her two lungs!”

— Pope John Paul II

133. “May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar.”

— Pope John Paul II

134. “The ecological crisis is a moral issue.”

— Pope John Paul II

135. “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

136. “The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.”

— Pope John Paul II

137. “All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.”

— Pope John Paul II

138. “To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.”

— Pope John Paul II

139. “Never again war. Never again hatred and intolerance.”

— Pope John Paul II

140. “Another name for peace is development.”

— Pope John Paul II

141. “The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.”

— Pope John Paul II

142. “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

143. “God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd ‘calls His sheep by name.’”

— Pope John Paul II

144. “Hands are the heart’s landscape.”

— Pope John Paul II

145. “Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, ‘deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.’ I repeat, ‘By anyone.’”

— Pope John Paul II

146. “What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return.”

— Pope John Paul II

147. “You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!”

— Pope John Paul II

148. “Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.”

— Pope John Paul II

149. “Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.”

— Pope John Paul II

150. “A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.”

— Pope John Paul II