Inspiration Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

— Pope Benedict XVI

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Violence against even one human being is violence against all.

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

“Contemplating the beauty of creation inspires us to recognize the love of the Creator, that Love which “moves the sun and the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

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

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

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness… Thanks be to God that this is so! In…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

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

— Pope Benedict XVI