Top 380 Pope John Paul II Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “It’s too early for a Polish pope.”

— Pope John Paul II

352. “An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt on reason’s ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human heart’s restless quest for meaning.”

— Pope John Paul II

353. “The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.”

— Pope John Paul II

354. “The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.”

— Pope John Paul II

355. “The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?”

— Pope John Paul II

356. “The body reveals the person. This phrase tells us all there is to know about the body. Science can examine our flesh in minute detail, down to our cells and even our DNA. But no amount of scientific exploration can replace the truth that our bodies reveal us, giving form to our innermost being and unique personality. Our bodies are sacramental – they make the invisible visible.”

— Pope John Paul II

357. “Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.”

— Pope John Paul II

358. “The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.”

— Pope John Paul II

359. “The body, in fact, and it alone is capable of making visible that which is invisible; the spiritual and the divine.”

— Pope John Paul II

360. “Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.”

— Pope John Paul II

361. “Love is never something ready made, something merely ‘given’ to man and woman, it is always at the same time a ‘task’ which they are set. Love should be seen as something which in a sense never ‘is’ but is always only ‘becoming’, and what it becomes depends up on the contribution of both persons and the depth of their commitment.”

— Pope John Paul II

362. “Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.”

— Pope John Paul II

363. “The more you give of yourself, the more you will find yourself.”

— Pope John Paul II

364. “Christianity proclaimed from the first the equality of all men and women before God.”

— Pope John Paul II

365. “Human Love in the Divine Plan. God’s designs for the person, the designs of divine love for human love – this is the reality the theology of the body attempts to unfold on the basis of the teaching of Jesus.”

— Pope John Paul II

366. “The Catholic tradition has always upheld human reason.”

— Pope John Paul II

367. “Family must be the first school of peace.”

— Pope John Paul II

368. “Knowledge must then lead to education in self-control.”

— Pope John Paul II

369. “This shows that history is not simply a fixed progression towards what is better, but rather an event of freedom, and even a struggle between freedoms that are in mutual conflict, that is, according to the well-known expression of St. Augustine, a conflict between two loves: the love of God to the point of disregarding self, and the love of self to the point of disregarding God.”

— Pope John Paul II

370. “Not with the Cross of the Savior behind you, but with your own cross behind the Savior.”

— Pope John Paul II

371. “Every act of true love towards a human being bears witness to and perfects the spiritual fecundity of the family, since it is an act of obedience to the deep inner dynamism of love as self-giving to others.”

— Pope John Paul II

372. “Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.”

— Pope John Paul II

373. “Love begets love.”

— Pope John Paul II

374. “A philosophy which no longer asks the question of the meaning of life would be in great danger of reducing the merely accessory functions, with no real passion for the search for truth.”

— Pope John Paul II

375. “As I look back, I see how all things are connected: today as yesterday, we find ourselves no less deeply caught up in the same mystery.”

— Pope John Paul II

376. “The desire for knowledge is so great and it works in such a way that the human heart, despite its experience of insurmountable limitation, yearns for the infinite riches which lie beyond, knowing that there is to be found the satisfying answer to every question as yet unanswered.”

— Pope John Paul II

377. “Tell the people the truth will set you free.”

— Pope John Paul II

378. “For this reason the Council was not first of all to condemn the errors of the time, but above all to strive calmly to show the strength and beauty of the doctrine of the faith.”

— Pope John Paul II

379. “The only thing that is demanded from the rational human being is that he does not destroy and squander these natural resources, and that he uses them with the moderation that will not impede the personal development of man himself and will guarantee for human societies a just and harmonious coexistence. In.”

— Pope John Paul II

380. “Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion. She listens to conscience and not to power, and in this way she defends the poor and the downtrodden.”

— Pope John Paul II

381. “Christ is the measure of every age.”

— Pope John Paul II

382. “In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the “external man.” When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.”

— Pope John Paul II

383. “A legitimate plurality of positions has yielded to an undifferentiated pluralism, based upon the assumption that all positions are equally valid, which is one of today’s most widespread symptoms of the lack of confidence in truth.”

— Pope John Paul II

384. “Those who love much succeed in overcoming their fear.”

— Pope John Paul II

385. “Whether we admit it or not, there comes for everyone the moment when personal existence must be anchored to a truth recognized as final, a truth which confers a certitude no longer open to doubt.”

— Pope John Paul II

386. “My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you. My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you. My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you.51.”

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387. “The interior life is the spiritual life. It focuses on truth and the good. It.”

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388. “The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists, it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence.”

— Pope John Paul II

389. “Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.”

— Pope John Paul II