“ ~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
“ 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
“ 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… John Paul II
“ Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at… 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
“ 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… 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… John Paul II
“ A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism. John Paul II
“ The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. John Paul II
“ Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. John Paul II
“ ...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade,rhythmically falling from the mountain,carried by its own current--carried where? John Paul II
“ 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
“ Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. 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
“ The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communicat… 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 i… John Paul II
“ Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. John Paul II
