31 ordspråk av Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII
If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light
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It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
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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.
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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.
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways: women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
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Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
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Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.
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See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little
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The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
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The family is the first essential cell of human society.
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The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
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We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange house but their own.
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We exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge.
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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.
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