Pope John Paul II Quotes - Page 2

The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.

He was alone in his wonderment,
amoung creatures incapable of wonder
-for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

...all that is carried along
by the stream's silvery cascade,
rhythmically falling from the mountain,
carried by its own current-
carried where?

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.

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.

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

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,

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.

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.

Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.