Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace... Peace will be the last word of history.

— 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

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

— John Paul II

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

— 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

~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~

— John Paul II

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

— John Paul II

Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.

— John Paul II

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

— John Paul II

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.

— John Paul II