Best Pope John XXIII Quotes
- Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life… Body
- We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so… All
- What unites us, is much greater than what divides us. Divides
- The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified. Accepted
- Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church. Apostolic
- The whole world is my family. Family
- I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. Eye
- It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. Children
- Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what… Advice
- Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. Age
- The family is the first essential cell of human society. Cell
- See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. Correct
- Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor. Born
- A peaceful man does more good than a learned one. Doe
- It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about… Begin
- Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap. End
- The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. Always Kept
- Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity. Bodily
- Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. Chose
- The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. Alone
- It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with… Attention
- Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one. Anybody
- I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. Able
- The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. Beginning
- Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less. Actual