Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to say 'yes' to Jesus: to find your joy in doing His will — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical. — 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
Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem. — 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
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
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“History as a whole is the struggle between love and the inability to love, between love and the refusal to love.” — 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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