Pope Paul VI

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

— Pope Paul VI

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

— Pope Paul VI

Never give advice in a crowd.

— Pope Paul VI

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

— Pope Paul VI

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

— Pope Paul VI

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

— Pope Paul VI

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

— Pope Paul VI

If you want peace, work for justice.

— Pope Paul VI

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

— Pope Paul VI

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

— Pope Paul VI

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

— Pope Paul VI

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

— Pope Paul VI

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

— Pope Paul VI

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

— Pope Paul VI

The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

— Pope Paul VI

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

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the…

— Pope Paul VI

Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our…

— Pope Paul VI

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift…

— Pope Paul VI

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage…

— Pope Paul VI

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has…

— Pope Paul VI

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of…

— Pope Paul VI

Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you…

— Pope Paul VI

Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are…

— 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…

— Pope Paul VI

The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a…

— Pope Paul VI

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied…

— Pope Paul VI

The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful…

— Pope Paul VI

Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing…

— Pope Paul VI

For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness…

— Pope Paul VI

Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly…

— Pope Paul VI

Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with…

— Pope Paul VI

For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon…

— Pope Paul VI

In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you…

— Pope Paul VI

“This state of affairs, which bodes ill for the future, causes Us great distress and anguish. But We cherish this hope: that…

— Pope Paul VI

The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include:…

— Pope Paul VI

There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided…

— Pope Paul VI

“[On married love] This love is above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It is not, then, merely a…

— Pope Paul VI

Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the…

— Pope Paul VI

Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church,…

— Pope Paul VI