Pope John Paul II Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
Pope John Paul II quotes that inspire a great attitude towards life That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
1. ...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.
Love and Responsibility
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- truth
2. A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
Love and Responsibility
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- wisdom
3. Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- truth
4. Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
Love and Responsibility
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- wisdom
5. 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.
Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- wisdom,truth
6. 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.
Purity of Heart: Reflections on Love and Lust / Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body in Simple Language, Vol. 2
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- truth
7. Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.
Crossing the Threshold of Hope
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- truth
8. Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
Love and Responsibility
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- wisdom
9. The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- truth,wisdom
10. The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- truth,wisdom
11. I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.
Pope John Paul II in My Own Words
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- hope
12. Know what you are talking about.
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- knowledge
13. 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.
Purity of Heart: Reflections on Love and Lust / Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body in Simple Language, Vol. 2
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- philosophy
14. The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- philosophy
15. The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- philosophy
16. The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- time
