Pope Paul VI Quotes - Page 2

If you believe in peace it is possible. If it is possible it is a duty.

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

Never give advice in a crowd.

The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can govern and rescue the Church from her present difficulties, but so that I can suffer something for the Church, and in that way it will be clear that he, and no other, is her guide and saviour

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.

Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of spreading His message and so giving rise to a society of believers: His Church. He promised the Spirit of truth to His Church and then sent Him.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.