Top 380 Pope John Paul II Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.”

— Pope John Paul II

252. “Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.”

— Pope John Paul II

253. “The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people’s attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.”

— Pope John Paul II

254. “From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.”

— Pope John Paul II

255. “Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.”

— Pope John Paul II

256. “The challenge is to make the church’s yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!”

— Pope John Paul II

257. “There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.”

— Pope John Paul II

258. “The Church’s teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and “rigid” capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.”

— Pope John Paul II

259. “The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.”

— Pope John Paul II

260. “He has chosen you, in a mysterious but real way, to make you saviors with Him and like Him. Yes, Christ calls you, but He calls you in truth. His call is demanding, because He invites you to let yourselves be ‘captured’ by Him completely, so that your whole lives will be seen in a different light.”

— Pope John Paul II

261. “Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life and human dignity, for the rights of today’s generations and those to come, prevails.”

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Pope John Paul II

263. “The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns ‘to be with Him.’”

— Pope John Paul II

264. “The world designed by God cannot be a world in which some hoard immoderate wealth in their hands, while others suffer from destitution and poverty, and die of hunger. Love must inspire justice and the struggle for justice.”

— Pope John Paul II

265. “We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.”

— Pope John Paul II

266. “To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.”

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Pope John Paul II

268. “The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history.”

— Pope John Paul II

269. “United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God’s new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

270. “When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens.”

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Pope John Paul II

272. “Let me go to the house of the Father.”

— Pope John Paul II

273. “The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

274. “The obligation to earn one’s bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.”

— Pope John Paul II

275. “Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.”

— Pope John Paul II

276. “Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!”

— Pope John Paul II

277. “What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.”

— Pope John Paul II

278. “One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.”

— Pope John Paul II

279. “I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be of comfort and hope to those who confide in him with faith and love; they look on him as the Emmanuel, God with us, who wished to dwell amongst us: his heart in our heart.”

— Pope John Paul II

280. “The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.”

— Pope John Paul II

281. “Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people’s confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one’s death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.”

— Pope John Paul II

282. “With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.”

— Pope John Paul II

283. “We are the sum of the Father’s love for us.”

— Pope John Paul II

284. “Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.”

— Pope John Paul II

285. “But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.”

— Pope John Paul II

286. “We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.”

— Pope John Paul II

287. “Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament.”

— Pope John Paul II

288. “The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.”

— Pope John Paul II

289. “Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.”

— Pope John Paul II

290. “Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.”

— Pope John Paul II

291. “It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.”

— Pope John Paul II

292. “Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God – a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.”

— Pope John Paul II

293. “A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.”

— Pope John Paul II

294. “With supernatural intuition Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the realities of everyday life. Hence work too is a means of personal holiness and apostolate when it is done in union with Jesus Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

295. “In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.”

— Pope John Paul II

296. “The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.”

— Pope John Paul II

297. “Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.”

— Pope John Paul II

298. “And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?”

— Pope John Paul II

299. “Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.”

— Pope John Paul II

300. “Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.”

— Pope John Paul II