Top 380 Pope John Paul II Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.”

— Pope John Paul II

302. “It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.”

— Pope John Paul II

303. “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

304. “Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.”

— Pope John Paul II

305. “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

306. “Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.”

— Pope John Paul II

307. “May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.”

— Pope John Paul II

308. “Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.”

— Pope John Paul II

309. “To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good...”

— Pope John Paul II

310. “The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.”

— Pope John Paul II

311. “Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.”

— Pope John Paul II

312. “Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard.”

— Pope John Paul II

313. “People must not attempt to impose their own ‘truth’ on others. The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a way that involves contempt for those who may think differently. Truth imposes itself solely by the force of its own truth.”

— Pope John Paul II

314. “The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”

— Pope John Paul II

315. “If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found – including recourse to opportune legislative measures – to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.”

— Pope John Paul II

316. “True living is not found in one’s self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful in the world. True living is found in God and you discover God in the person of Jesus Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

317. “It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulites in explaining the origin of man, in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.”

— Pope John Paul II

318. “The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.”

— Pope John Paul II

319. “Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.”

— Pope John Paul II

320. “Around the world, we can see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Today, all men have a duty to show themselves worthy of the mission given them by the Creator by ensuring the safekeeping of that creation.”

— Pope John Paul II

321. “In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.”

— Pope John Paul II

322. “The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.”

— Pope John Paul II

323. “You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.”

— Pope John Paul II

324. “It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person’s good.”

— Pope John Paul II

325. “Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart.”

— Pope John Paul II

326. “If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.”

— Pope John Paul II

327. “Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.”

— Pope John Paul II

328. “Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.”

— Pope John Paul II

329. “We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object; he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching, the absolute standard.”

— Pope John Paul II

330. “The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.”

— Pope John Paul II

331. “In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.”

— Pope John Paul II

332. “Faith intervenese not to abolish reason’s autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.”

— Pope John Paul II

333. “Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.”

— Pope John Paul II

334. “How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.”

— Pope John Paul II

335. “Prayer finds its source in God’s holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.”

— Pope John Paul II

336. “Only a socially just country has the right to exist.”

— Pope John Paul II

337. “Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind’s future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.”

— Pope John Paul II

338. “The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity’s own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.”

— Pope John Paul II

339. “Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who ‘pleased God and was loved by him’ and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.”

— Pope John Paul II

340. “There must be a cooperation of all who believe in God, knowing that authentic religiousness – far from placing individuals and peoples in conflict with one another – rather pushes them together to build a world of peace.”

— Pope John Paul II

341. “The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to develop spiritually in the climate of the Eucharist.”

— Pope John Paul II

342. “Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.”

— Pope John Paul II

343. “There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.”

— Pope John Paul II

344. “My desire is for the young people of the entire world to come closer to Mary. She is the bearer of an indelible youthfulness and beauty that never wanes. May young people have increasing confidence in her and may they entrust their lives to her.”

— Pope John Paul II

345. “It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.”

— Pope John Paul II

346. “God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.”

— Pope John Paul II

347. “Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.”

— Pope John Paul II

348. “The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.”

— Pope John Paul II

349. “Commending the victims to almighty God’s mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.”

— Pope John Paul II

350. “I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.”

— Pope John Paul II