Palm Sunday tells us that...it is the cross that is the true tree of life. — Pope Benedict XVI Cross Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another. — Pope Benedict XVI Communication Copy Share Image
We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. — Pope Benedict XVI Animal Copy Share Image
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power. — Pope Benedict XVI Church Copy Share Image
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. — Pope Benedict XVI Communication Copy Share Image
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI Biology Copy Share Image
A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help… — Pope Benedict XVI Catholic Copy Share Image
Following Christ's example, we have to learn to give ourselves completely. Anything else is not enough. — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In this Year of Faith, may every Christian rediscover the beauty of being reborn in the love of God and living as… — Pope Benedict XVI Beauty Copy Share Image
God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them. — Pope Benedict XVI Faithful Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people,… — Pope Benedict XVI Career Copy Share Image
“In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the… — Pope Benedict XVI Faith Copy Share Image
The cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lords vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and… — 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Contemplating the beauty of creation inspires us to recognize the love of the Creator, that Love which “moves the sun and the… — Pope Benedict XVI Beauty Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable… — Pope Benedict XVI Apostles Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently… — Pope Benedict XVI Climate Copy Share Image
“...when today as believers in our age we hear it said, a little enviously perhaps, that in the Middle Ages everyone without… — Pope Benedict XVI Behind the scenes Copy Share Image
“Whether it is Bach or Mozart that we hear in church, we have a sense in either case of what gloria Dei,… — Pope Benedict XVI Art Copy Share Image
The more ardent the love for the Eucharist in the hearts of the Christian people, the more clearly will they recognize the… — Pope Benedict XVI Ardent Copy Share Image
“This did not have to be the case, because the faith was, from its very beginnings, greater, broader, and deeper. Even today… — Pope Benedict XVI Faith Copy Share Image
For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become… — Pope Benedict XVI Bishops Copy Share Image
You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“People were no longer concerned with understanding what a text said or what a thing was from the aspect of its fulfillment,… — Pope Benedict XVI Bible Copy Share Image
“And we are seeing new elements, such as African, South American or Filipino elements, bringing new dynamism to the Church which can… — Pope Benedict XVI Religion Copy Share Image
“The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.” — Pope Benedict XVI Confession Copy Share Image
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good,… — Pope Benedict XVI Beauty Copy Share Image
I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on… — Pope Benedict XVI Beauty Copy Share Image
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 America 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 People Copy Share Image
It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Abortion 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
