In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.
Pope John Paul IIContraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.
Pope John Paul IIFrom now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul IILife is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
Pope John Paul IIFaced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.
Pope John Paul II