It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Accepting the Cross, entering into fellowship with Christ, means entering the realm of transformation and expiation.” — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does… — 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
We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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