"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice."
― Pope Paul VI
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Faith
More From Pope Paul VI
- "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."
- "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."
- "If you want peace work for justice."
More In Faith
- "If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."― Mahatma Gandhi
- "Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church."― William Ames
- "Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman."― Victor Hugo