Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a… — 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
Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only… — 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's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or… — 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
“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
“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
The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The reasonableness of the universe provides us with access to God's Reason, and the Bible is and continues to be the true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The universe is not the product of darkness and unreason. It comes from intelligence, freedom, and from the beauty that is identical… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we have love for our neighbor, we will find the face of Christ in the poor, the weak, the sick and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“We have come to believe in God's love: in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. Being… — 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
“Is it not true that what we call “nature” in a cosmic sense has its origin in “a plan of love and… — 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
I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love.… — 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
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
The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“God is the Lord of all things because he is their creator, and only therefore can we pray to him. For this… — 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
