9 quotes
pope of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978 (1897–1978)
“Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.”
"To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes."
on Love
"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help."
on Strength
"If you want peace work for justice."
on Justice
"In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long."
on Life
"Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will."
on Faith
"No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons."
on Peace
"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."
on Happiness
"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."
on Emotion
