Quotessence
Home / Authors / Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI Quotes

Author

Filter quotes by topic

AllMenChurchIfsHumansPeopleWorldDoeJusticeCatholicGivingHeartMankindOrderAbsenceCatholicismChristCommunityInspirationalShouldWay

Famous Pope Paul VI Quotes

“In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.”

GivingDoeSoulSelfFactsAmericaPurposeCommunityPoorGreaterComfortOffersConceptsLonelyConstitutionHungryClothingsShelterHomelessOrdinances
Author:Pope Paul VI
Create image

“Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically Christian life, given over to God in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbor with limitless zeal. As we said recently to a group of lay people, “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.”

PeopleIfsMenShouldFirstsMeanDoeSaidChristianGivenChurchTeacherGroupsModernLaysFollowingNeighborChristian LifeWitnessAppropriateCommunionLimitlessZealModern Man
Author:Pope Paul VI
Create image