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

Pope John Paul II Quotes

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

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

— Pope John Paul II

Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.

— Pope John Paul II

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime “novelty” and richness as can only be approached “on one’s knees”.

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Pope John Paul II

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

Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.

— Pope John Paul II

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

Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the “Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named,” from whom every human family comes.

— Pope John Paul II

If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

— Pope John Paul II

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

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

— Pope John Paul II

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Pope John Paul II

The greatness of work is inside man.

— Pope John Paul II

It’s too early for a Polish pope.

— Pope John Paul II

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

— Pope John Paul II

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

— Pope John Paul II

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.

— Pope John Paul II

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
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