Pope John Paul II Quotes

If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.

My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.

The most important connection I can see between my faith and my work is that in the progress of my day, I try to be restrained and mindful of every person's humanity and of the overwhelming challenge of pride.

I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.

I believe in so much - I believe in people. I believe in hope.

I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

God called us to take His message of love and faith to the whole world.

I'm not just about being an ambassador of Christ. I'm here also, talking with friends, being the same person that I always am.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.