 Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. |
| Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. |
| Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. |
| What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust. |
| Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. |
| Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. |
| Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. |
| An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. |
| To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. Topics: Family |
| You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. |
| The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. |
| The future starts today, not tomorrow. |
| Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. |
| Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. |
| You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. |
| The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? |
| Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. |
| Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. |
| Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile. |
| When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. |
