Explore Quotes by Pope Paul Vi

I met a hundred men going to Delhi, and every one is my brother.

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.

The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

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

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.

Never give advice in a crowd.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

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 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.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

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

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