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Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said.
— Michael Lewis
Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
— Pope Benedict XVI
We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.
— Pope Benedict XVI
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.
— Pope Benedict XVI
One who has hope lives differently.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The essence of Christianity ... is an ever-new encounter with ... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!
— Pope Benedict XVI
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
— Pope Benedict XVI
We were looking for a 'good shepherd', and instead we got a German shepherd.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.
— Pope Benedict XVI
And so worship is bound up with all three dimensions of the circular movement: the personal, the social, and the universal.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The Christian calendar is wrong, Jesus was born years earlier.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Testament in order to repel the tempter:
— Pope Benedict XVI
Freedom of conscience is the core of all freedom
— Pope Benedict XVI
Holiness never goes out of fashion.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.
— Pope Benedict XVI
During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Violence against even one human being is violence against all.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
— Pope Benedict XVI
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!
— Pope Benedict XVI
Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Rediscover the joy of believing.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure ...
— Pope Benedict XVI
Purity of heart is what enables us to see.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Look at the face of the other ... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom
— Pope Benedict XVI
How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?
— Pope Benedict XVI
Accepting the Cross, entering into fellowship with Christ, means entering the realm of transformation and expiation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?
— Pope Benedict XVI
The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.
— Pope Benedict XVI
When the danger is great, one must not run away.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
He [Pope Benedict XVI] spoke of the distilled message of John Paul's reign: Be not afraid
— Peggy Noonan
The way we order our time is dependent on the way we order our Sunday.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.
— Pope Benedict XVI
An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church ... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy.
— Pope Benedict XVI
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Only from God does true revolution come ... the definitive way to change the world.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Liberation is our continual and fresh acceptance of truth as the path of life set before us.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.
— Pope Benedict XVI
[I am not] one of those thoughtless people who always uncritically accept what is new as necessarily better.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
— Pope Benedict XVI
But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Rejection of truth is the real core of our crisis.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Pope Benedict XVI
A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.
— Pope Benedict XVI
These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
— David Novak