Discidium illud inter fidem quam profitentur et vitam quotidianam multorum, inter graviores nostri temporis errores recensendum est. —Gaudium et Spes §43

This split between the faith which many profess and their daily lives deserves to be counted among the more serious errors of our age. —Gaudium et Spes §43

Coram morte aenigma condicionis humanae maximum evadit. —Gaudium et Spes §18

It is in the face of death that the riddle of human existence grows most acute. —Gaudium et Spes §18

Whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself, poisons human society, and does more harm to those who practice such things than those who suffer the injury. —Gaudium et Spes §27

Homo vero non fallitur, cum se rebus corporalibus superiorem agnoscit, et non tantum ut particulam naturae aut anonymum elementum civitatis humanae seipsum considerat. —Gaudium et Spes §14

Man is not wrong when he regards himself as superior to bodily concerns, and as more than a speck of nature or a nameless constituent of the city of man. For by his interior qualities he outstrips the whole sum of mere things. —Gaudium et Spes §14

Moving gradually together and everywhere more conscious already of its unity, the human family cannot accomplish its task of constructing a world more genuinely human unless each person devotes himself to the cause of peace with renewed vigor. —Gaudium et Spes §77

In order to build up peace, above all the causes of discord among men, especially injustice, which foment wars, must be rooted out. —Gaudium et Spes §83

In imo conscientiae legem homo detegit, quam ipse sibi non dat, sed cui obedire debet. —Gaudium et Spes §16

Creatura enim sine Creatore evanescit. —Gaudium et Spes §36

When God is forgotten, the creature itself grows unintelligible. —Gaudium et Spes §36

Creatura enim sine Creatore evanescit. —Gaudium et Spes §36

While extravagant sums are being spent for the furnishing of ever new weapons, an adequate remedy cannot be provided for the multiple miseries afflicting the whole modern world. —Gaudium et Spes §81

Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear. —Gaudium et Spes §22

Christus, novissimus Adam, in ipsa revelatione mysterii Patris Eiusque amoris, hominem ipsi homini plene manifestat eique altissimam eius vocationem patefacit. —Gaudium et Spes §22