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 Quote

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

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

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 Quote

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

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 Quote

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
- Pope Paul VI Quote

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 Quote