Top 380 Pope John Paul II Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.”

— Pope John Paul II

203. “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

204. “The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another’s pain.”

— Pope John Paul II

205. “The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.”

— Pope John Paul II

206. “The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.”

— Pope John Paul II

207. “When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.”

— Pope John Paul II

208. “Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.”

— Pope John Paul II

209. “In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.”

— Pope John Paul II

210. “Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.”

— Pope John Paul II

211. “Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.”

— Pope John Paul II

212. “This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.”

— Pope John Paul II

213. “How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.”

— Pope John Paul II

214. “I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.”

— Pope John Paul II

215. “The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.”

— Pope John Paul II

216. “Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world.”

— Pope John Paul II

217. “If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.”

— Pope John Paul II

218. “The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.”

— Pope John Paul II

219. “While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community – individuals, States and international bodies – take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.”

— Pope John Paul II

220. “It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.”

— Pope John Paul II

221. “Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?”

— Pope John Paul II

222. “I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.”

— Pope John Paul II

223. “The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God...”

— Pope John Paul II

224. “In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!”

— Pope John Paul II

225. “I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.”

— Pope John Paul II

226. “All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.”

— Pope John Paul II

227. “Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.”

— Pope John Paul II

228. “Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.”

— Pope John Paul II

229. “He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder – for them it was enough to exist and go their way.”

— Pope John Paul II

230. “You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.”

— Pope John Paul II

231. “Saint Thomas Aquinas explains how, with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, a person’s whole spiritual being becomes responsive to God’s light, not only the light of knowledge but also the inspiration of love. I have prayed for the gifts of the Holy Spirit since my youth and I continue to do so.”

— Pope John Paul II

232. “The greatness of work is inside man.”

— Pope John Paul II

233. “You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.”

— Pope John Paul II

234. “To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”

— Pope John Paul II

235. “The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.”

— Pope John Paul II

236. “Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good.”

— Pope John Paul II

237. “Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.”

— Pope John Paul II

238. “Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.”

— Pope John Paul II

239. “Men and women will retain their sex in heaven.”

— Pope John Paul II

240. “Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.”

— Pope John Paul II

241. “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

242. “The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man’s humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.”

— Pope John Paul II

243. “Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.”

— Pope John Paul II

244. “Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

245. “None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.”

— Pope John Paul II

246. “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

247. “In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime “novelty” and richness as can only be approached “on one’s knees”.”

— Pope John Paul II

248. “Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.”

— Pope John Paul II

249. “The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.”

— Pope John Paul II

250. “Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.”

— Pope John Paul II