Pope John Paul II Quotes: 15

• I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

• 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 abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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

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

  Pope John Paul II: In My Own Words

• Know what you are talking about.

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

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

  Love and Responsibility

• 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 and Responsibility

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

  Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

• In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man."When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

  Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

• 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.

• 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.

  Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

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

• 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.

  Fides Et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter of John Paul II