Pope John Paul Ii

I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.

The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

We are the sum of the Father's love for us

To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.

The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.