John Paul 2 Theology Of The Body Quotes & Sayings

Human Love in the Divine Plan. God's designs for the person, the designs of divine love for human love - this is the reality the theology of the body attempts to unfold on the basis of the teaching of Jesus. — Pope John Paul II

Man often accords the sexual urge a merely biological significance and does not fully realize its true, existential significance - its link with existence. It is this link with the very existence of man and of the species Homo that gives the sexual urge its objective importance and meaning. This importance only emerges into consciousness when man is moved by love to take on himself the natural purpose of the sexual urge. — Pope John Paul

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons. — Pope John Paul II