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
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
—Pope John Paul II
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
Topics: Divorce
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
—Pope John Paul II
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Humanity
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remains standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Humanity
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Wildlife
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Family
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Responsibility
The worst prison is a closed heart.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Kindness
Another key element of human ecology is the inviolability of human life, especially at its beginning and its end. The Holy See insistently proclaims that the first and most fundamental of all human rights is the right to life, and that when this right is denied all other rights are threatened. The assumption that abortion and euthanasia are human rights deserving legislative sanction is seen by the Holy See as a contradiction which amounts to a denial of the human dignity and freedom which the law is supposed to protect. A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
—Pope John Paul II
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
Topics: Parents
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.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Marriage
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Work
Every generation of Americans needs to know
that freedom consists not in doing what we like,
but in having the right to do what we ought.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Conviction
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
Topics: Nationalities, Nationality, Nation, Nationalism
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
—Pope John Paul II
When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Christianity
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Truth
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
Topics: Religion, Churches
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.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Fear
A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.
—Pope John Paul II
Topics: Community
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Fulton J. Sheen American Catholic Religious Leader
- Pope John XXIII Italian Catholic Religious Leader
- Bernard of Clairvaux French Catholic Religious Leader
- James Gibbons American Catholic Religious Leader
- Jean Baptiste Massillon French Catholic Religious Leader
- Blaise Pascal French Philosopher, Scientist
- Billy Graham American Baptist Religious Leader
- The 14th Dalai Lama Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader
- Desiderius Erasmus Dutch Humanist, Scholar
- Thomas Aquinas Italian Catholic Priest
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