We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. — 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
Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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 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
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are… — 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
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
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God is alive. He has created every one of us, and he knows us all. He is so great that He has… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share
