Pope Paul Vi Quotes

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.

~ Pope Paul Vi

The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows. For the aim and object of apostolic works is that all who are made sons of God by faith and baptism should come together to praise God in the midst of His Church, to take part in the sacrifice, and to eat the Lord's supper.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the matter of responsible parenthood, which today, rightly enough, is much insisted upon, but which at the same time should be rightly understood. Thus, we do well to consider responsible parenthood in the light of its varied legitimate and interrelated aspects.

~ Pope Paul Vi

The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services. But other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony, are by no means excluded from liturgical celebrations, so long as they accord with the spirit of the liturgical action.

~ Pope Paul Vi

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

~ Pope Paul Vi

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

~ Pope Paul Vi

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.

~ Pope Paul Vi

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

~ Pope Paul Vi

If you want peace work for justice.

~ Pope Paul Vi

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

~ Pope Paul Vi

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.

~ Pope Paul Vi

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

~ Pope Paul Vi

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

~ Pope Paul Vi