An invitation to hope
A source page for quotes linked to Pope John XXIII.
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“The whole world is my family.”
Source: An invitation to hope
“Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.”
“Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.”
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
“Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.”
“Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.”
“The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.”
“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
“Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.”
“I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.”
Source: Days of Devotion: Daily Meditations from the Good Shepherd
“If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.”
Source: Journal of a Soul
Source: Journal of a Soul
“The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.”
“Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.”
Source: An invitation to hope
“I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.”
Source: Journal of a Soul
“I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.”
“The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.”