Quotes by Pope Paul VI

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Pope Paul VI was considered one of his most likely successors.
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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.

Pope Paul VI

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Pope Paul VI

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.

Pope Paul VI

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

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A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

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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.

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Never give advice in a crowd.

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

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This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them sha...

Pope Paul VI

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

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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.

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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePope Paul VI
  • Description262nd Pope of the Catholic Church
  • AliasesGiovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; Giovanni Battista Montini; Pope Paul VI
  • BornSeptember 26, 1897
  • DiedAugust 6, 1978
  • CountryItaly; Vatican City
  • ProfessionCatholic Priest; Diplomat
  • AwardsKnight Grand Cross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic; Order Of Isabella The Catholic; Order Of St. Gregory The Great; Order Of Pius IX; Order Of The Golden Spur