Notice: ob_end_flush(): Failed to delete and flush buffer. No buffer to delete or flush in /home1/ntptuqmy/public_html/quotes/includes/header_html.php on line 6
Pope John Paul II Quotes - IQDb - Internet Quotes Database

Quotes from Pope John Paul II


Sorted by Popularity


Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.


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.


Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.


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.


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.


Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.


I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.


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.


There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.


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.


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, before God, you formulate.


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.


The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.


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.


The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?


You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.


War is a defeat for humanity.


The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.


An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.


The future starts today, not tomorrow.