Pope Paul VI quotes - page 2

It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God. (Pope Paul VI)
The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. View quote
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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. View quote
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. View quote
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No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. View quote
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The question of human procreation, like every other question which touches human life, involves more than the limited aspects specific to such disciplines as biology, psychology, demography or sociology. View quote
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The marriage of those who have been baptized is, in addition, invested with the dignity of a sacramental sign of grace, for it represents the union of Christ and His Church. View quote
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. View quote
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Married love is also faithful and exclusive of all other, and this until death. View quote
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I for one find it much easier to sympathise with the Arnoldian gloom of Paul looking quietly at the ruin of the Church than with the glad-handing U2 world-tour optimism of St. John Paul II. View quote
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We find sin the perversion of human freedom, and the deep cause of death, because it is separation from God, the source of life...and then, in its turn, the occasion and effect of an intervention in us and in our world of an obscure agent, the Devil. Evil is not merely a lack of something, but an effective agent, a living spiritual being, perverted and perverting. A terrible reality. Mysterious and frightening. It is contrary to the teaching of the Bible and the Church to refuse to recognize the existence of such a reality, or to regard it as a principle in itself which does not draw its origin from God like every other creature; or to explain it as a pseudoreality, a conceptual and fanciful personification of the unknown causes of our misfortunes. (Pope Paul VI)