Never give advice in a crowd.

The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense...

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Catholics, in their ecumenical work, must assuredly be concerned for their separated brethren, praying for them, keeping them informed about the Church, making the first approaches toward them. But their primary duty is to make...

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.

The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother’s plea and...

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

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...

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.

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

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

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

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

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.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

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.

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...

Any port in a storm.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

[The Catholic Church] holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only...

everyone else was a surprise, at least as measured by public speculation prior to the conclave.