As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

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.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

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.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
- Pope John Paul II Quote

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

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.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

War is a defeat for humanity.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

When 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.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
- Pope John Paul II Quote

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
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