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Christian inspirational Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

49 Christian inspirational quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

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Love opens a heart, and the quotes say that only when we are open can we truly know another person. They stress that the greatest gifts—truth, transformation, and revolution—come from God, not from our own effort. They also call us to seek truth beyond superficial opinions.

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

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How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable…

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God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

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God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

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Violence against even one human being is violence against all.

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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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The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

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Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.

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A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let…

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What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes…

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Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who…

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Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as…

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Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of…

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A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need…

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Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which…

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Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too…

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The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become…

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The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and…

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In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and…

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Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your…

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To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring…

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For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and…

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God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in…

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I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty…

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The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,…

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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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The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

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The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the…

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With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if…

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The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and…

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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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In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what…

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God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He…

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Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God…

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Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence,…

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From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does…

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The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place…

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Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a…

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The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering…

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Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift with which…

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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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