Pope John XXIII Quotes - Page 2

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• The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.

  Pope John XXIII

  Faith, Inspiration, Way

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

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  Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

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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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  Funny, Humorous, Gambling

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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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  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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• Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.

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  Hope, Frustration, Thinking

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• The whole world is my family.

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  Family, World, Whole

  Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”

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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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  Inspirational, Marriage, Eye

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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.

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  Men, Racism, Dignity

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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.

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  Country, Order, Diversity

  Pacem in Terris (1963) p. 150

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• The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object Jesus, God and man, really present in the most holy Eucharist. The spirit of sacrifice, of humiliation, of scorn for self in the eyes of men, will be illuminated, supported and strengthened by the constant thought of Jesus, humiliated and despised in the Blessed Sacrament

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  Jesus, Blessed, Eye

  Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.149, A&C Black

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• In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

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  Truth, Rights, Justice

  'Pacem in Terris' (1963)

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• Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

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  Truth, Silence, May

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• When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

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  Sacred Scripture, Week, Found

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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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  Military, War, World

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• Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

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  Littles, Forget

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• Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

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  Justice, Sincere, Individual

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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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  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

  Pope John XXIII (1996). “Days of Devotion: Daily Meditations from the Good Shepherd”, Viking Press

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

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  Humble, People, Proud

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

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  Feelings, Good Company, Smallness

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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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  Catholic, Church, Noble

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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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  Long, Becoming, World

  Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”

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

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  Peace, Equality, Mutual Help

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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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  Brother, Blood, Names

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• An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

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  Angel, Paradise, Praying

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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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  Generosity, Catholic, Church

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