WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:28:00 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg John XXIII – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 John XXIII -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/john-xxiii/2114/ https://wist.info/john-xxiii/2114/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=2114 See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little.


St. John XXIII (1881-1963) Italian Catholic Pontiff (1958-63) [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli]
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/john-xxiii/2114/feed/ 0 2114 John XXIII -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/john-xxiii/6836/ https://wist.info/john-xxiii/6836/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:54:20 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=6836 It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think of a serious problem and decide that I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. 


St. John XXIII (1881-1963) Italian Catholic Pontiff (1958-63) [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli]
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Quoted in "Thoughts on the Business of Life," Forbes (29 Dec 1997)

 ]]> https://wist.info/john-xxiii/6836/feed/ 0 6836 John XXIII -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/john-xxiii/17987/ https://wist.info/john-xxiii/17987/#respond Fri, 18 May 2012 20:41:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=17987 It often happens that I wake 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 I am the Pope.


St. John XXIII (1881-1963) Italian Catholic Pontiff (1958-63) [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli]
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/john-xxiii/17987/feed/ 0 17987 John XXIII -- Journal of a Soul (1903) https://wist.info/john-xxiii/18998/ https://wist.info/john-xxiii/18998/#respond Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:02:47 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=18998 From the saints I must take the substance, not the accidents of their virtues. I am not St. Aloysius, nor must I seek holiness in his particular way, but according to the requirements of my own nature, my own character and the different conditions of my life. I must not be the dry, bloodless reproduction of a model, however perfect. God desires us to follow the examples of the saints by absorbing the vital sap of their virtues and turning it into our own life-blood, adapting it to our own individual capacities and particular circumstances. If St. Aloysius had been as I am, he would have become holy in a different way.


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