Pope John Paul II Quotes

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

I believe in the right to life.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

We should not need to be reminded of the value of human life.

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

I value human life. I don't want to see human life taken away unnecessarily.

Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility, and one Hoosiers entrusted me to uphold.

For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.

All human life is precious.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.

As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to feel the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and the support that will help them always to embrace life?

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law.

I don't think God will continue to bless America if we continue to kill 1.2 million children every year.

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.