Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ… — 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
For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore… — 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
Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The places of pilgrimage have marked a kind of geography of faith in our country, that is, they make visible, almost tangible,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The following motto is written on the invitation to your first mass: ‘We don’t rule over your faith, we serve your joy.’… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering… — 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
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult"… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in… — 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
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“One has to make do with what time one has. I was conscious that my task was of another kind: that I… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Faith that is lived from deep within amid a secularized world is the most powerful ecumenical force that brings us together, guiding… — Pope Benedict XVI 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 Copy Share Image
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and… — 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
