Karol Wojtyla Quotes

Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the greatness which is not oneself, which is beyond one's self

love is enthusiasm rather than pensiveness

Man is a continuum, a totality and a continuity - so it cannot be that nothing remains!

El amor es un continuo desafío que nos lanza Dios, y lo hace, tal vez, para que nosotros desafiemos también el destino K. Wojtyla, El taller del orfebre

the Pope said, ‘Whoever meets Jesus Christ meets Judaism.’ Karol Wojtyla, who was once Bishop of Krakow and helped Jews during the Holocaust, described Judaism as Christianity’s older brother and Christianity as an offshoot of the trunk of King David. He said that it was time that the Catholic Church recognised its responsibility in fostering the anti-Semitism which had made the Holocaust possible, and urged reconciliation between Catholics and Jews.

because he could do that, you know. He could look right into your soul. I was in the presence of the universal shepherd of the Church, the Pope. Then it finally sank in: He was no longer Cardinal Wojtyla, but John Paul II, the successor of Peter.

On a visit to the United States in 1976, the Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla predicted a dire confrontation between the Church and the forces of secular humanism: We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel. We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to alleviate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it. … How many times has the renewal of the Church been brought about in blood! It will not be different this time.

Only falsehood wraps itself in a flood of words. Truth is brief.

Dovremmo sempre ricordarci che la stupidità potrà anche essere un dono di Dio, ma, come diceva il santo Papa Karol Wojtyla, non bisogna di certo abusarne, anche perché, come ci ricorda Aristotele, la giusta misura è sempre un'ottima virtù.

A certain pain accompanies this, for man would simply like to follow what is spontaneous; he would like to find love ready-made in all reactions that have the other human being as their object.

Es debido a la persona ser tratada como objeto de amor, y no como objeto de placer

La persona es un bien respecto del cual solo el amor constituye la actitud apropiada y valedera

El contenido y la estructura de la amistad podrían expresarse por esta fórmula: "Quiero el bien para ti, como también lo quiero para mí

L’amore può essere anche uno scontro nel quale due esseri umani prendono coscienza che dovrebbero appartenersi, malgrado la mancanza di stati d’animo, e di sensazioni comuni

Four months before the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran in February 1979, the Catholic Church dealt with the "malaise" by elevating a 58-year-old Pole by the name of Karol Wojtyla to the chair of Peter. According to Wojtyla, the "malaise" of 1979 derived from "the dehumanizing tendencies of modern culture — a threat he saw as much in the rampant modernizing capitalism of the West as in the atheistic materialism of the East.