105 Quotes by Pope Paul VI

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.

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.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

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.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

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.

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

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

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.