Pope John Paul II Quotes

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Hate knows that love is the cure.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.