Pope John Paul II Quotes
Pope John Paul II: Head of the Roman Catholic Church and third
longest serving Pope, from 1978 - 2005. Lived: 1920 - 2005.
Pope John Paul II Biography and
Posters Pope John Paul II Quotations I have a sweet
tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to
keep his balance.
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this [gay marriage]
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.
[Abortion is] extermination which has been allowed by nothing less
than democratically elected parliaments where one normally hears
appeals for the civil progress of society and all humanity.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising
techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work
by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
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. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a
lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising
techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work
by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
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.
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a
person operating within a community of persons.
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could
be said that you are our elder brothers.
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.
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.
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.
This people draws its origin from Abraham, our father in faith
The very people that received from God the commandment 'Thou shalt
not kill' itself experienced in a special measure what is meant by
killing. It is not permissible for anyone to pass by this
inscription with indifference.
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.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion
can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is
extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what
it intends to create.
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.
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. Once
again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known
declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and
displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and
by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.
Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem
unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important
thing.
[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.
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.
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly
knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is
very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
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.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world
in which we live.
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a
deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and
hallelujah is our song.
It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.
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