John Paul Ii Quotes

Those 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

A 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

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.

~ John Paul Ii

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

~ John Paul Ii

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

~ John Paul Ii

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

~ John Paul Ii

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

~ John Paul Ii

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.

~ John Paul Ii

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

~ John Paul Ii

God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.

~ John Paul Ii

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

~ John Paul Ii

The term 'person' has been coined to signify that a man cannot be wholly contained within the concept 'individual member of the species', but that there is something more to him, a particular richness and perfection in the manner of his being, which can only be brought out by the use of the word 'person'.

~ John Paul Ii

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love.

~ John Paul Ii

Faced with today's problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

~ John Paul Ii