Top 380 Pope John Paul II Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Mary’s role is to make Her Son Shine.”

— Pope John Paul II

152. “Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.”

— Pope John Paul II

153. “Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.”

— Pope John Paul II

154. “Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.”

— Pope John Paul II

155. “The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.”

— Pope John Paul II

156. “Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.”

— Pope John Paul II

157. “Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.”

— Pope John Paul II

158. “In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

159. “The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.”

— Pope John Paul II

160. “I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.”

— Pope John Paul II

161. “It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.”

— Pope John Paul II

162. “The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.”

— Pope John Paul II

163. “Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.”

— Pope John Paul II

164. “A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.”

— Pope John Paul II

165. “Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

— Pope John Paul II

166. “The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”

— Pope John Paul II

167. “The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.”

— Pope John Paul II

168. “This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.”

— Pope John Paul II

169. “That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.”

— Pope John Paul II

170. “The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.”

— Pope John Paul II

171. “Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.”

— Pope John Paul II

172. “The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.”

— Pope John Paul II

173. “Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.”

— Pope John Paul II

174. “Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.”

— Pope John Paul II

175. “Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.”

— Pope John Paul II

176. “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

177. “The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.”

— Pope John Paul II

178. “The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.”

— Pope John Paul II

179. “Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.”

— Pope John Paul II

180. “May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.”

— Pope John Paul II

181. “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

182. “On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.”

— Pope John Paul II

183. “Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God.”

— Pope John Paul II

184. “We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.”

— Pope John Paul II

185. “Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.”

— Pope John Paul II

186. “The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.”

— Pope John Paul II

187. “You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.”

— Pope John Paul II

188. “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

189. “Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!”

— Pope John Paul II

190. “Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.”

— Pope John Paul II

191. “Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action.”

— Pope John Paul II

192. “Open your minds and hearts to the beauty of all that God has made and to His special, personal love for each one of you.”

— Pope John Paul II

193. “When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the ‘urge’ towards God springs...”

— Pope John Paul II

194. “We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.”

— Pope John Paul II

195. “Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world’s expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.”

— Pope John Paul II

196. “Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?”

— Pope John Paul II

197. “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

198. “When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.”

— Pope John Paul II

199. “Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.”

— Pope John Paul II

200. “In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life.”

— Pope John Paul II