A collection of quotes and thoughts by Pope John Paul II on youth, forgiveness, family, religion, Jesus Christ, life, love, afraid, courage, future and freedom.
61 Motivational Quotes By Pope John Paul II That Will Help You Face The Chill Winds
Karol Jozef Wojtyla, popularly known as Pope John Paul II, served as the sovereign of the Vatican City and Pope of the Catholic Church. Some Catholics also address him as ‘Saint John Paul the Great.' He was the first non-Italian since 1523 to become the Pope, besides being the longest serving Pope in the history. He made significant contribution in improving relationships of Catholic Church with the Anglican Communion, Islam, Judaism, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. He earned a lot of admiration from the masses but was also criticized for defending the Church’s decision to oppose same-sex marriage. Here is a list of enlightening quotes and sayings by the man who pushed aside boundaries of caste, creed, religion and culture to spread the message of ‘God.' Scroll down to read through the insightful quotes and thoughts by Pope John Paul II.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul II
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
Pope John Paul II
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.
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.
Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.
There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.
Pope John Paul II
He was alone in his wonderment,
amoung creatures incapable of wonder
--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.
Pope John Paul II
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
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.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Pope John Paul II
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
Pope John Paul II
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.
God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.
The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world.
Pope John Paul II
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
