71 quotes found
“War is a defeat for humanity.”
“The whole world is my family.”
“It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.”
“Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ!”
“Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.”
“See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.”
“The Christian should be characterized by an effort to see things in the best light; if it is true that the word Evangelos means good news, then Christian means happy man, spreader of happiness. 'Gr...”
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
“If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.”
“You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.”
“... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”
“The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the events of the Mediterranean. We see the astronauts, from the distance of a few feet, at the very momen...”
“Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgressions, to judge others by different standards from those used to judge ourselves. Enlarged merits...”
“When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had be...”
“They call it "young music"; I see, however, that the record industry makes millions by the carload for shrewd older people! They invoke the name of spontaneity, nonconformity and originality; actua...”
“Man often accords the sexual urge a merely biological significance and does not fully realize its true, existential significance - its link with existence. It is this link with the very existence o...”
“Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”
“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.”
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”
“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
“I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.”
“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”
“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”
“Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.”
