Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Pope John XXIII
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
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
Pope John XXIII
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
Pope John XXIII
I am made to tremble and I fear!
Pope John XXIII
I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
Pope John XXIII
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
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
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
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Pope John XXIII
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
Pope John XXIII
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII
We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange house but their own.
Pope John XXIII
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.
Pope John XXIII
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Type:
Pope
Date of Birth:
1881-11-25
Year of Death:
1963
Nationality:
Roman |
