Never reach out your hand ...

Never reach out your hand unless you\'re willing to extend an arm.
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
 Pope Paul VI

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
 Pope Paul VI
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
 Pope Paul VI
Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly interested in those which directly touch man's spirit and which have opened up new avenues of easy communication of all kinds of news, of ideas and orientations.
 Pope Paul VI
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
 Pope Paul VI
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
 Pope Paul VI