You cannot live only on trial, you cannot die only on trial, you cannot love only on trial, only accept a person on trial and for a time.

— Pope John Paul II (1920–2005), Papst

Pope John Paul II

Johannes Paul II. (bürgerlich Karol Wojtyła) war ein polnischer Geistlicher und von 1978 bis 2005 Oberhaupt der römisch-katholischen Kirche im Vatikan. Er erlangte historische Bedeutung durch seinen Beitrag zum Ende des Kommunismus in Osteuropa, seine Katechesen zur „Theologie des Leibes“ sowie eine strikt konservative Morallehre. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk Impulse zur christlichen Anthropologie und zum Schutz des menschlichen Lebens, während sein Pontifikat heute zugleich wegen des institutionellen Umgangs mit Missbrauchsfällen kritisch hinterfragt wird.

All quotes by Pope John Paul II (19)

More on this topic

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on the marriage that sustains your love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you see a child, you catch God in the act.
Martin Luther

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish; but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis

To love is to be vulnerable.
C.S. Lewis

Our sexuality is not our soul, marriage is not heaven, and singleness is not hell.
Jackie Hill Perry

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.

All quotes · lumen.bible