Pope John XXIII Quotes

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

  Pope John XXIII

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• 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.

  Pope John XXIII

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• If civil authorities legislate for or allow anything that is contrary to that order and therefore contrary to the will of God, neither the laws made or the authorizations granted can be binding on the consciences of the citizens, since God has more right to be obeyed than  man.

  Pope John XXIII

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• … Just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

  Pope John XXIII

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• The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

  Pope John XXIII

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

  Pope John XXIII

• The family is the first essential cell of human society.

  Pope John XXIII

• The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

  Pope John XXIII

• Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

  Pope John XXIII

• 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.

  Pope John XXIII

• 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.

  Pope John XXIII

• I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

  Pope John XXIII

• Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

  Pope John XXIII

• Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

  Pope John XXIII

• 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.

  Pope John XXIII

• Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

  Pope John XXIII

• Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

  Pope John XXIII

• A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

  Pope John XXIII

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

  Pope John XXIII

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

  Pope John XXIII

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Pope John XXIII (23)

Birth:	25th November, 1881
Death:	3rd June, 1963
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Chaplain

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