Pope John Paul II Quotes

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

Let us remind ourselves that if we are to be our Lord's disciples, we must take up his Cross and follow him.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.'

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.

Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.