John Paul II quotes:

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  • Know what you are talking about.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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,

  • A person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest contacts with the whole (external) world and is most intimately involved with it precisely because of its inwardness, its interior life.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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