Pope John Paul II Quotes

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.

Only through love can we obtain communion with God.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts. He must wait for the gift of love, and love can only be received as a gift... One must wait for it, let it be given to one. And one cannot become wholly man in any other way than by being loved, by letting oneself be loved... If he declines to let himself be presented with the gift, then he destroys himself.

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least particle, is a being in relation, and thus God-relation shines forth, ultimately creative Love shines forth. All comes from love, tends toward love, and is moved by love, naturally, according to different grades of consciousness and freedom... The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: only love makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and be loved.

Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.

The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.

Love is the very essence of the gospel.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.