Quotes from Pope John Paul II

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle

Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

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

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

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.

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.