70 Quotes by Pope John XXIII

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

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.