Citations by Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini)

262º Bishop of Rome and Pope of the Catholic Church, born sunday september 26, 1897 in Concesio (Italy), died sunday august 6, 1978 in Castel Gandolfo (Italy)

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.
Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini)
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    Catholics, in their ecumenical work, must assuredly be concerned for their separated brethren, praying for them, keeping them informed about the Church, making the first approaches toward them. But their primary duty is to make a careful and honest appraisal of whatever needs to be done or renewed in the Catholic household itself, in order that its life may bear witness more clearly and faithfully to the teachings and institutions which have come to it from Christ through the Apostles.
    Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini)
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      Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
      Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini)
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        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.
        Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini)
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