01UndatedIt is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.John Paul II / quote ↗
02UndatedThe Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.John Paul II / quote ↗
03UndatedHe was alone in his wonderment,amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.John Paul II / quote ↗
04Undated...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade,rhythmically falling from the mountain,carried by its own current--carried where?John Paul II / quote ↗
05UndatedThe capacity to love is determined by the fact that man is ready to seek the good consciously with others, to subordinate himself to this good because of others, or to subordinate himself to others because of this good.John Paul II / quote ↗
06UndatedArtistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.John Paul II / quote ↗
07UndatedNot all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.John Paul II / quote ↗
08UndatedDo not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.John Paul II / quote ↗
09UndatedReal peace is not just a matter of structures and mechanisms. It rests above all on the adoption of a style of human coexistence marked by mutual acceptance and a capacity to forgive from the heart. We all need to be forgiven by others, so we must all be ready to forgive. Asking and granting forgiveness is something profoundly worthy of every one of us,John Paul II / quote ↗
10UndatedAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.John Paul II / quote ↗
11UndatedDo not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.John Paul II / quote ↗
12UndatedTreating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.John Paul II / quote ↗
13UndatedWhen 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
14UndatedPrayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.John Paul II / quote ↗
15UndatedYesterday was a dark day in the history of humanity, a terrible affront to human dignity. After receiving the news, I followed with intense concern the developing situation, with heartfelt prayers to the Lord. How is it possible to commit acts of such savage cruelty? The human heart has depths from which schemes of unheard-of ferocity sometimes emerge, capable of destroying in a moment the normal daily life of a people. But faith comes to our aid at these times when words seem to fail. Christ’s word is the only one that can give a response to the questions which trouble our spirit. Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. Christian hope is based on this truth; at this time our prayerful trust draws strength froJohn Paul II / quote ↗
16UndatedMen are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.John Paul II / quote ↗
17UndatedCould God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and--to repeat once again--Love, desires to justify Himself to mankind. He is not the Absolute that remains outside of the world, indifferent to human suffering. he is Emmanuel, God-with-us, a God who shares man's lot and participates in his destiny.John Paul II / quote ↗
18Undated~Have NO fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with YOU, therefore NO harm can befall YOU; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence~John Paul II / quote ↗
19UndatedHumankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.John Paul II / quote ↗
20UndatedWhenever 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
21UndatedThose who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical underpinnings, which need to be carefully evaluated before they are applied to the sacred texts.John Paul II / quote ↗
22UndatedA 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.John Paul II / quote ↗
23UndatedThe earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.John Paul II / quote ↗
24UndatedA democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.John Paul II / quote ↗
