Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Pope John Paul II
Born: May 18, 1920
Died: April 2, 2005 (aged 84)
Bio: Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was Pope from 1978 to 2005. He is widely known to Catholics as Saint John Paul the Great, especially in the names of institutions.
Known for:
- Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994)
- Love and Responsibility (1960)
- Memory and Identity (2005)
- Evangelium vitae (1995)
- Fides et ratio (1998)
Pope John Paul II Quotes