Pope John XXIII Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems”
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“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
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“If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.”
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“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
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“See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.”
-- Pope John XXIIISource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.”
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“Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.”
-- Pope John XXIIISource : Henri Fesquet Wit and Wisdom of Good Pope John (1964) p. 112
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“Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.”
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“Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.”
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“The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears we caused by forgetting Thy love. Forgive us, Lord, for the curse we falsely attributed to their name as Jews. Forgive us for crucifying Thee a second time in their flesh. For we knew not what we did.”
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“Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”
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“Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.”
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“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.”
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“The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.”
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“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.”
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“O Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, I would like to be filled with love for You; keep me closely united with You, may my heart be near to Yours. I want to be to You like the apostle John. O Mary of the Rosary, keep me recollected when I say these prayers of yours; bind me forever, with your rosary, to Jesus of the Blessed Sacrament. Blessed be Jesus, my love..”
-- Pope John XXIIISource : Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.50, A&C Black
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“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
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“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
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“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.”
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“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 XXIIISource : Quoted in Forbes, 14 May 1990
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“The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.”
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“Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.”
-- Pope John XXIIISource : Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”
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“Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.”
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“I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.”
-- Pope John XXIIISource : "The Guardian profile: Mel Gibson" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2004.
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“I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.”
-- Pope John XXIIISource : Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.307, A&C Black
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“The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.”
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“The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.”
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“We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.”
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“What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.”
-- Pope John XXIIISource : "Paul McCartney signs letter urging Scotland to stick with UK" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. September 2, 2014.
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“The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.”
-- Pope John XXIII
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