John Paul Ii Quotes

John Paul Ii Quote of the day

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

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!

I already knew about this friendship between St. John Paul II and this philosopher [Ana Teresa Tymieniecka] when I was in Buenos Aires. It was known. Also her books are known.

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.

Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.

John Paul II called us Jews the older brothers of Christians. He represented humanity, dialogue and reconciliation, and he laid the foundation for religions to work together.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

The impact remains to be seen; I don't think we can measure the enduring impact of John Paul II, for example, for another hundred, perhaps two hundred, years.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.

The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.