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Never give advice in a crowd.
If you want peace work for justice.
If you want peace, work for justice.
A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.
I met a hundred men going to Delhi, and every one is my brother.
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.
If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.
Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack
Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.
If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.
No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
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.
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
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.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
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.
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.
The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The religion of the God who became man has met the religion (for such it is) of man who makes himself God. And what happened? Was there a clash, a battle, a condemnation? There could have been, but there was none
Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.
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.
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.
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.