“The church needs to reflect on herself. She needs to feel the throb of her own life. She must learn to know herself better, if she wishes to live her own proper vocation and to offer to the world her message of brotherhood and of salvation.” – Pope Paul VI

“The mystery of the church is not a mere object of theological knowledge; it is something to be lived.” – Pope Paul VI

“The right to private property is not absolute and unconditional.” – Pope Paul VI

“True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.” – Pope Paul VI

“Just as the whole of creation is ordered toward its Creator, so too the rational creature should of his own accord direct his life to God, the first truth and the highest good.” – Pope Paul VI

“Every worker is, to some extent, a creator—be he artist, craftsman, executive, laborer or farmer.” – Pope Paul VI

“The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother’s plea and answer it lovingly.” – Pope Paul VI

“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