Italian - Clergyman | September 26, 1897 - August 6, 1978
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
Pope Paul VI
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
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If you want peace work for justice.
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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
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The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
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Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
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Never give advice in a crowd.
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I met a hundred men going to Delhi, and every one is my brother.
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