Pope Paul VI Quotes
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
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.
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.
Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.
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.
The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.
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.
We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.
Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.
The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.
The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
To love can mean 'to love oneself, ' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.
