620 Quotes by Pope John Paul II

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.

On 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.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

The 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.

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

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.

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