Love Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

94 Love quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

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A heart open to another learns to truly know the other person. Love rooted in faith can bring joy even amid setbacks and suffering. The quotes also say love and truth act as weapons against lies, and love requires self‑sacrifice.

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Rediscover the joy of believing.

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The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.

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

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Chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time.

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Tell others about the truth that sets you free.

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The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!

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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

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Forgiveness is no substitute for justice.

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“God is love, and the encounter with him is the only response to the restlessness of the human heart;”

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

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

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

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If we have love for our neighbor, we will find the face of Christ in the poor, the weak, the sick and…

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

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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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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 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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“If one says the loving God corrects every Pope in his successor – in what ways are you being corrected through Pope…

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“Contemplating the beauty of creation inspires us to recognize the love of the Creator, that Love which “moves the sun and the…

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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…

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God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him…

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Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the…

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The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race,…

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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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It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves…

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Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By…

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“In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in…

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Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and…

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Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly…

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The more ardent the love for the Eucharist in the hearts of the Christian people, the more clearly will they recognize the…

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Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually…

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“What is truth? Pilate was not alone in dismissing this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his purposes. Today too, in political…

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“Eusebius strongly challenges believers of all times on their approach to the events of history and of the Church in particular. He…

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“It is characteristic of mature love that it calls into play all man's potentialities; it engages the whole man, so to speak.…

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The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down…

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Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed…

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Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are…

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“My dear young friends, I want to invite you to "dare to love". Do not desire anything less for your life than…

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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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“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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