We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“That is why the second coming of the Lord is not only salvation, not only the omega that sets everything right, but… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be… — 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
