Quotes from Pope Paul VI

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

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.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

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.

Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.

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.

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

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

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

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

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

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.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

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

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.

If you want peace, work for justice.

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.

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.

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.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

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.