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Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically christian life, given over to god in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbor with limitless zeal. as we said recently to a group of lay people, “modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
-Pope Paul VI
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Without Repeating Everything That We Have Already

Pope Paul VI
Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically christian life, given over to god in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbor with limitless zeal. as we said recently to a group of lay people, “modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
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