Pope John XXIII
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Motivational
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.Collection: Inspirational
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Collection: Trust
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.Collection: Great
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.Collection: Age
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.Collection: Dad
The family is the first essential cell of human society.Collection: Society
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.Collection: Family
Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him.Collection: Truth
Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to recognize his voice, to follow him, faithfully and with full awareness, on the pastures of eternal life.
In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
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.
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Christian life means sacrifice.
Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and he is aware of his duty to keep it with honor, dignity, and grace.
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.
Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.Collection: Heart
What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.Collection: Divides
I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.Collection: People
Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.Collection: Catholic
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.Collection: Prayer
Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.Collection: Hands
I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.Collection: Jesus
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 problemsCollection: Jesus
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.Collection: Jesus
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.Collection: Inspiring
O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts... May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people.Collection: Faith
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.Collection: Christian
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.Collection: Light
The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. 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.Collection: Peace
The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Jesus
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness.Collection: Sweet
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.Collection: Reading
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.Collection: Hope
The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Sacred Scripture
Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.Collection: Littles
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.Collection: Military
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.Collection: Truth