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Justice comes before charity.
The whole world is my family.
Christian life means sacrifice.
I am made to tremble and I fear!
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.
What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.
The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.
The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.
Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.
I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him.
The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.
An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and he is aware of his duty to keep it with honor, dignity, and grace.
The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.
Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to recognize his voice, to follow him, faithfully and with full awareness, on the pastures of eternal life.
In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.