SAINT  John Paul II Quotes

On Mahatma Ghandi, during a visit to India in 1986:”He was never a Christian and he never pretended to be a Christian, but I learned a lot from him.”

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgement, Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.

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

Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.

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

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

A nation that kills its own children has no future. 

Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

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.