Pope John Paul II Quotes

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

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.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

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 the master-slave relationship.

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

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 philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.

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

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

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

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.

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.

The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.

I plead with you-never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

Know what you are talking about.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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.

Merry Christmas!

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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.