Pope John XXIII Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Pope John XXIII:

Christian life means sacrifice.

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

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

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

Pope John XXIII

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

A peaceful man does more good than a learned 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

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Pope John XXIII

Christian life means sacrifice.

Pope John XXIII

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Pope John XXIII

Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him.

Pope John XXIII

Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.

Pope John XXIII