Pope John XXIII Quotes

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I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII

Inspirational, Heart, Eyes

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Pope John XXIII

Dad, Father, Children

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.
Pope John XXIII

Dreams, Yourself, Possible

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII

Family, Society, Human

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.
Pope John XXIII

Night, Remember, Problem

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Pope John XXIII

Great, Everything, Deal

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

Humble, Die, Poor

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
Pope John XXIII

Good, Learned, Peaceful

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
Pope John XXIII

End, Here, Road

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
Pope John XXIII

Life, Integrity, Bodily

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.
Pope John XXIII

Work, Friendly, Her

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Pope John XXIII

Death, End, Able

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
Pope John XXIII

Good, Feelings, Company

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

Peace, Trust, Equality

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII

Family, Women, Three

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII

Become, Anybody, Proof

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII

Light, Beginning, Church

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Clergyman

Born: November 25, 1881

Died: June 3, 1963

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