105 Quotes by Pope Paul VI

In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self....

Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

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

Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm.

The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows. For the aim and object of apostolic works is that all who are made sons of God by faith and baptism should come together to praise God in the midst of His Church, to take part in the sacrifice, and to eat the Lord’s supper.

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

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

Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the Living Heart of each of our parishes.