We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus. Pope John Paul II More Quotes by Pope John Paul II More Quotes From Pope John Paul II To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to set out on the difficult path of the Gospel virtues. Pope John Paul II runningbelievejesus In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees". Pope John Paul II husbandinspirationfaith 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. Pope John Paul II kissingmotherhome Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being. Pope John Paul II inspirationfaithlove-is Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person. Pope John Paul II abortioncatholiclaw To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good. Pope John Paul II tasksinspirationfaith In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life. Pope John Paul II vacationinspirationfaith Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man. Pope John Paul II inspirationfaithmen The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter. Pope John Paul II inspirationfaithheart In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things. Pope John Paul II inspirationfaithgiving It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species. Pope John Paul II responsibilityblessedprayer The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her. Pope John Paul II faithfulunitylight All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order. Pope John Paul II greatnessmotherblow The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution. Pope John Paul II environmentalpatternsprofound He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way. Pope John Paul II enoughwonderway ...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where? Pope John Paul II cascademountainfall I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment. Pope John Paul II prayerdarkprofound Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons Pope John Paul II businesseducationmen In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy that humanity will survive. Pope John Paul II inspiringcountrypast Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups? Pope John Paul II theologianchildrenjesus
