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Faith Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

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Pope Benedict XVI describes faith as a personal, intimate friendship with Jesus. He says love and truth grow strongest when we share our suffering and keep our hearts open. He also highlights the Rosary as a way to meditate on Christ’s mysteries and live a clear, honest life.

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Rediscover the joy of believing.

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“Faith is reasonable.”

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Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

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Violence against even one human being is violence against all.

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God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

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It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

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

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Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

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The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

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Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

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With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if…

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The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and…

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A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need…

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The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed…

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The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.

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Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world.

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

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Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

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All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear…

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“One has to make do with what time one has. I was conscious that my task was of another kind: that I…

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Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too…

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Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we…

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The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place…

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The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power…

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With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and…

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Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which…

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“Mary is a woman who loves. How could it be otherwise? As a believer who in faith thinks with God's thoughts and…

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If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source…

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“The following motto is written on the invitation to your first mass: ‘We don’t rule over your faith, we serve your joy.’…

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“The places of pilgrimage have marked a kind of geography of faith in our country, that is, they make visible, almost tangible,…

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“This did not have to be the case, because the faith was, from its very beginnings, greater, broader, and deeper. Even today…

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We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's…

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From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does…

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Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness… Thanks be to God that this is so! In…

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

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Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.

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In this Year of Faith, may every Christian rediscover the beauty of being reborn in the love of God and living as…

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

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

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

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

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The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

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Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a…

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“Joseph Ratzinger never developed his own theological system. As a theologian he took on what was there, discerned its essentials, situated it in relation…

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Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice…

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Joy is the true gift of Christmas.

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Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay…

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One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay…

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

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It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church…

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

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Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result…

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