Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good. — 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
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands. — 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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