“A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”

— Pope John Paul II, Love and Responsibility (1960), ch. 1

About Pope John Paul II

1920 – 2005

Polish-born pope who led the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005.

“Remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm and look forward to the future with confidence.”

“Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.”

“Here, it is not so much God who rejects man, but man who rejects God.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”