Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Pope Benedict XVI on Wise Famous Quotes.
Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.
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.
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.
If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!
God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.
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.
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.
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.
I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.
If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.
Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ
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.
I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.
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.
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Vargas Llosa has said, "Democracy is an event that provokes yawns in the countries in which rule of law exists."49
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.
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.
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.
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.
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.
[I am not] one of those thoughtless people who always uncritically accept what is new as necessarily better.