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Top 10 Pope John Paul I Quotes (2025 Update)

Pope John Paul I Quote: “God is our father, but even more is God our mother.”

1. “God is our father, but even more is God our mother.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards ‘having’ rather than ‘being,’ and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.”

2. “It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards ‘having’ rather than ‘being,’ and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.”

3. “I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.”

4. “Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “I am at best on the C list for Pope.”

5. “I am at best on the C list for Pope.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had become proud and had begun – jackass that he was – to bow his thanks left and right like a prima donna, how much hilarity he would have aroused! Don’t act the same!”

6. “When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had become proud and had begun – jackass that he was – to bow his thanks left and right like a prima donna, how much hilarity he would have aroused! Don’t act the same!”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the events of the Mediterranean. We see the astronauts, from the distance of a few feet, at the very moment they land on the moon. Unfortunately the news almost swamps us with its frequency and abundance. It doesn’t give us time to reflect: we are so constantly amazed that gradually we lose our capacity for being surprised at anything, and we don’t enjoy even beautiful things.”

7. “The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the events of the Mediterranean. We see the astronauts, from the distance of a few feet, at the very moment they land on the moon. Unfortunately the news almost swamps us with its frequency and abundance. It doesn’t give us time to reflect: we are so constantly amazed that gradually we lose our capacity for being surprised at anything, and we don’t enjoy even beautiful things.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “They call it “young music”; I see, however, that the record industry makes millions by the carload for shrewd older people! They invoke the name of spontaneity, nonconformity and originality; actually, canny “clothing industrialists” manipulate the field, undisturbed sovereigns! They call themselves revolutionaries, but the overscrupulous attentions devoted to their hair and their dress risk creating merely effeminates.”

8. “They call it “young music”; I see, however, that the record industry makes millions by the carload for shrewd older people! They invoke the name of spontaneity, nonconformity and originality; actually, canny “clothing industrialists” manipulate the field, undisturbed sovereigns! They call themselves revolutionaries, but the overscrupulous attentions devoted to their hair and their dress risk creating merely effeminates.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.”

9. “Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought that his sin was too great to be forgiven. No sin is too big: any wretchedness, however great, can always be enclosed in infinite mercy.”

10. “What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought that his sin was too great to be forgiven. No sin is too big: any wretchedness, however great, can always be enclosed in infinite mercy.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.”

11. “I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.”

12. “If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “Even the young are killing each other.”

13. “Even the young are killing each other.”

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I Quote: “The Christian should be characterized by an effort to see things in the best light; if it is true that the word Evangelos means good news, then Christian means happy man, spreader of happiness. ‘Grim faces,’ Saint Philip Neri used to say, ’are not made for the merry house of Paradise!”

14. “The Christian should be characterized by an effort to see things in the best light; if it is true that the word Evangelos means good news, then Christian means happy man, spreader of happiness. ‘Grim faces,’ Saint Philip Neri used to say, ’are not made for the merry house of Paradise!”

— Pope John Paul I

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