Pope Paul VI quotes

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. (Pope Paul VI)
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. View quote
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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. View quote
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. View quote
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Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. View quote
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If you want peace work for justice. View quote
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If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase. View quote
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Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes. View quote
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. View quote
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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. View quote
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Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. (Pope Paul VI)
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. View quote
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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. View quote
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Never give advice in a crowd. View quote
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The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves. View quote
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No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. View quote
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. View quote
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We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. View quote
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. View quote
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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. View quote
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Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? (Pope Paul VI)
I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother. View quote
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. View quote
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I was solitary before, but now my solitariness becomes complete and awesome. Hence the dizziness, the vertigo. Like a statue on a plinth-that is how I live now. Jesus also was alone on the cross. I should not seek outside help to absolve me from my duty; my duty is too plain: decide, assume every responsibility for guiding others, even when it seems illogical and perhaps absurd. And to suffer alone... Me and God. The colloquy must be full and endless. View quote
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The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. It has always been a source of great joy to them, even though it sometimes entails many difficulties and hardships. View quote
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