620 Quotes by Pope John Paul II

The 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.

He was alone in his wonderment,amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade,rhythmically falling from the mountain,carried by its own current--carried where?

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.

Could 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.

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.