Quotes by Pope John Paul II

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Pope John Paul II is referred to by Roman Catholics as Pope Saint John Paul II or Saint John Paul the Great, for example as a name for institutions.
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Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and--to repeat once again--Love, desires to justify Hims...

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Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of t...

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Those who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical underpinnings, which need to be carefully evaluated before they are applied to the sacred texts...

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It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophe...

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Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

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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.

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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

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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 freed...

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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, bef...

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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.

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What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— , as the Latin puts it—and this, in the strict sense, is a mode of operation which belongs to the Almi...

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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.

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...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

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No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free wi...

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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.

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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.

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Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

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A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

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A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePope John Paul II
  • Description264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
  • AliasesKarol Józef Wojty?a; Karol Wojty?a; Pope John Paul II; Saint John Paul
  • BornMay 18, 1920
  • DiedApril 2, 2005
  • CountryPoland; Vatican City
  • ProfessionCatholic Priest; Poet; Politician; Esperantist; Philosopher; Writer; Human Rights Activist
  • AwardsCharlemagne Prize; Order Of The White Eagle; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Congressional Gold Medal; Order Of The Smile; Order Of St. Gregory The Great; Order Of Pius IX; Order Of The Golden Spur; Robert Schuman Medal