Pope John Paul II Quotes

Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are, right within ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the more we can reflect into the outer situation.

No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.

The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

Peace is our passion.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.