01UndatedThe ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.John Paul II / quote ↗
02UndatedOn one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" nature (cf. analysis of the "beginning"), to which a proportionate pyramid of values corresponds. On the other hand, "lust" limits this gamut, obscuring the pyramid of values that marks the perennial attraction of male and female.John Paul II / quote ↗
03UndatedThe ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.John Paul II / quote ↗
04UndatedNo one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.John Paul II / quote ↗
05UndatedIt 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
06UndatedFaith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.John Paul II / quote ↗
07UndatedIn 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
08UndatedOriginal sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.John Paul II / quote ↗
09UndatedLove 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
10Undated...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.John Paul II / quote ↗
11UndatedThe 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
12UndatedA person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.John Paul II / quote ↗
13UndatedFriendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.John Paul II / quote ↗
14UndatedLove between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.John Paul II / quote ↗
15UndatedLimitation 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
16UndatedTake 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
17UndatedI plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.John Paul II / quote ↗
18UndatedThe 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
19UndatedDo not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.John Paul II / quote ↗
22UndatedTrue freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.John Paul II / quote ↗
24UndatedNone 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
