Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Liberation is our continual and fresh acceptance of truth as the path of life set before us.” — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“What is truth? Pilate was not alone in dismissing this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his purposes. Today too, in political… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“It is the question that is also asked by modern political theory: Can politics accept truth as a structural category? Or must… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an authoritative objection… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Is it not true that what we call “nature” in a cosmic sense has its origin in “a plan of love and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The reasonableness of the universe provides us with access to God's Reason, and the Bible is and continues to be the true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Let us say plainly: the unredeemed state of the world consists precisely in the failure to understand the meaning of creation, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
“Joseph Ratzinger never developed his own theological system. As a theologian he took on what was there, discerned its essentials, situated it in relation… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
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… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
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… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
