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Pope Benedict XVI Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

One who has hope lives differently.

If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd', and instead we got a German shepherd.

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

It is true: God disturbs our comfortable day-to-day existence. Jesus' kingship goes hand in hand with his Passion.

And so worship is bound up with all three dimensions of the circular movement: the personal, the social, and the universal.

The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given.

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!

The Christian calendar is wrong, Jesus was born years earlier.

Testament in order to repel the tempter:

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

Holiness never goes out of fashion.

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

Violence against even one human being is violence against all.

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.

Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.

Chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time.

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

Listen to the voice of the earth...

I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.

I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

A spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Mission is a workshop where there is room for all.

Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything.

Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ

What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

Do not be afraid to say 'yes' to Jesus: to find your joy in doing His will

God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed,

The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

As
Vargas Llosa has said, "Democracy is an event that provokes yawns in the countries in which rule of law exists."49

History as a whole is the struggle between love and the inability to love, between love and the refusal to love.

Eternal Life is life itself, real life, which can also be lived in the present age and is no longer challenged by physical death.

I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth,

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place.

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man.

The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

In his self-offering on the Cross, Jesus, as it were, brings all the sin of the world deep within the love of God and wipes it away.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.

The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church ... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.

Tell others about the truth that sets you free.

God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

Joy is the true gift of Christmas ...

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

God cannot act in history - that

The way we order our time is dependent on the way we order our Sunday.

The Law has become a person. When we encounter Jesus, we feed on the living God himself, so to speak; we truly eat "bread from heaven.

Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

[I am not] one of those thoughtless people who always uncritically accept what is new as necessarily better.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.