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Pope Paul VI [1897-1978] Italian
Rank: 101
Clergyman, Pope


Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, reigned as Pope from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms, and fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestants, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. 

Inspirational, Work, Age, Anger, Art, Beauty, Christmas, Faith, God, Life, Peace, Society, Strength, Technology, Wisdom



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Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. Wisdom
101
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. Life, Work
102
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
103
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. Beauty, Strength
104
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. God
105
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. Inspirational
106
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. Art, Work
107
A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
108
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. Age
109
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.
110
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. Inspirational
111
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. Christmas, Faith
112
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.
113
If you want peace work for justice. Peace
114
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
115
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. Society, Technology
116
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
117
I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.
118
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. Anger
119
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
120
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.
121
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.
122
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
123
Never give advice in a crowd.
124

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