Quotes by Pope John XXIII

About Pope John XXIII:

Pope Saint John XXIII was canonized on 27 April 2014. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, including papal nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to naming him as the Patriarch of Venice.
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Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Pope John XXIII

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

Pope John XXIII

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

Pope John XXIII

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Pope John XXIII

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

Pope John XXIII

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

Pope John XXIII

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

Pope John XXIII

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

Pope John XXIII

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Pope John XXIII

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Pope John XXIII
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It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Pope John XXIII

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Pope John XXIII

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Pope John XXIII

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Pope John XXIII

Author Bio

  • NamePope John XXIII
  • Description261st Pope of the Catholic Church
  • AliasesAngelo Giuseppe Roncalli; Angelo Roncalli; John 23; Pope John XXIII; Saint John XXIII
  • BornNovember 25, 1881
  • DiedJune 3, 1963
  • CountryItaly; Vatican City
  • ProfessionCatholic Priest; Diplomat
  • AwardsGrand Cross Of The Legion Of Honour; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Balzan Prize; Righteous Among The Nations; Order Of St. Gregory The Great; Order Of Pius IX; Order Of The Golden Spur