Pope Paul VI

“I met a hundred men going to Delhi, and every one is my brother.”

“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.”

“The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services. But other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony, are by no means excluded from liturgical celebrations, so long as they accord with the spirit of the liturgical action.”

“This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.”

“Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.”

“No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.”

“The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.”

“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.”

“In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.”