Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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
“God is love, and the encounter with him is the only response to the restlessness of the human heart;” — 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
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved. — 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
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If one says the loving God corrects every Pope in his successor – in what ways are you being corrected through Pope… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
“In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves… — 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… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Another thing is that, despite all the confidence I have that the loving God cannot forsake me, the closer you come to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Eusebius strongly challenges believers of all times on their approach to the events of history and of the Church in particular. He… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“What is truth? Pilate was not alone in dismissing this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his purposes. Today too, in political… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of mature love that it calls into play all man's potentialities; it engages the whole man, so to speak.… — 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
Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“My dear young friends, I want to invite you to "dare to love". Do not desire anything less for your life than… — 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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