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title: "50 Needs Quotes By Pope Benedict XVI"
description: "50 Needs quotes by Pope Benedict XVI. Plus more from Pope Benedict XVI and more Needs sayings from other authors."
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> [Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/reason-always-stands-in-need-of-being-purified-by-faith/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/god-loves-us-we-need-only-to-summon-up-the-humility-to-allow/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/we-can-learn-from-him-that-suffering-and-the-gift-of-himself-is-an/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/there-is-an-urgent-need-for-the-emergence-of-a-new-generation-of/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-church-needs-your-faith-your-idealism-and-your-generosity-so-that/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/as-i-passed-alongside-it-i-prayed-for-a-future-in-which-the-peoples/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/a-thirst-for-the-infinite-is-indelibly-present-in-human-beings-man/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/it-is-necessary-not-only-to-relieve-the-gravest-needs-but-to-go-to/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/let-us-allow-ourselves-to-be-infected-by-st-joseph-s-silence-we-need/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/do-not-believe-that-living-together-before-marriage-guarantees-the/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/how-much-we-need-in-the-church-and-in-society-witnesses-of-the-beauty/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/monsters-among-other-brutes-are-the-ones-without-guilt-feelings/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/i-think-in-particular-of-our-need-to-speak-to-the-hearts-of-young/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/our-knowledge-of-jesus-is-in-need-above-all-of-a-living-experience/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/it-is-imperative-that-the-entire-christian-community-in-the-united/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/being-missionaries-means-loving-god-with-all-one-s-heart-even-to-the/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness… Thanks be to God that this is so! In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/each-one-of-us-needs-time-and-space-for-recollection-meditation-and/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/we-are-building-a-dictatorship-of-relativism-that-does-not-recognize/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/guilt-must-not-be-allowed-to-fester-in-the-silence-of-the-soul/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/authentic-love-is-obviously-something-good-when-we-love-we-become/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-current-economic-crisis-has-numerous-causes-and-sends-a-powerful/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-deepest-poverty-is-the-inability-of-joy-the-tediousness-of-a-life/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/for-more-than-160-years-through-the-initiative-of-the-french-bishop/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-catholic-community-must-offer-support-to-those-women-who-may-find/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [ The experience of \[the African\] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must be known,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-experience-of-the-african-bishops-is-that-evangelization-itself/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/anyone-who-knows-he-is-loved-is-in-turn-prompted-to-love-it-is-the/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/authentic-love-is-obviously-something-good-when-we-love-we-become-2/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/dear-young-people-the-church-depends-on-you-she-needs-your-lively/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/every-human-being-is-loved-by-god-the-father-no-one-need-feel/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-world-needs-transparent-lives-clear-souls-pure-minds-that-refuse/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/you-must-know-how-to-translate-the-indications-of-the-word-into-daily/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/we-are-moving-toward-a-dictatorship-of-relativism-which-does-not/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-world-needs-more-than-just-itself-amid-the-dreariness-people-do/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/that-the-different-christian-confessions-aware-of-the-need-for-a-new/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/a-world-filled-with-temptations-needs-priests-who-are-totally/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/this-world-in-which-we-live-needs-beauty-in-order-not-to-sink-into-2/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/today-the-need-to-avoid-confusing-marriage-with-other-types-of-unions/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/both-need-each-other-the-agnostic-cannot-be-content-to-not-know-but/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/too-often-attention-is-diverted-from-the-needs-of-populations/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/many-of-our-brothers-and-sisters-are-baptized-but-insufficiently/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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## Other authors on Needs

## More by Pope Benedict XVI

> [The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-fact-that-the-lord-can-work-and-act-even-with-insufficient-means/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-essence-of-christianity-is-an-ever-new-encounter-with-the-god-who/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/if-you-abide-in-the-love-of-christ-rooted-in-the-faith-you-will/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/continue-to-witness-to-the-gospel-every-day-and-commit-yourselves/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/jesus-example-of-fidelity-to-prayer-challenges-us-to-examine-the-time/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/if-we-look-to-the-saints-this-great-luminous-wake-with-which-god-has/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [“Joseph Ratzinger never developed his own theological system. As a theologian he took on what was there, discerned its essentials, situated it in relation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/joseph-ratzinger-never-developed-his-own-theological-system-as-a/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/jesus-christ-does-not-teach-us-a-spirituality-of-closed-eyes-but-one/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [Joy is the true gift of Christmas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/joy-is-the-true-gift-of-christmas/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/material-possessions-in-themselves-are-good-we-would-not-survive-for/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/one-of-the-promising-indications-of-a-renewal-in-the-church-s/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/god-loves-us-despite-our-shortcomings-and-sins-and-his-love-gives/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/it-s-a-great-responsibility-before-god-the-judge-who-guides-us-who/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/discovering-the-beauty-and-joy-of-faith-is-a-path-that-every-new/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

> [Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/apostolic-and-missionary-fruitfulness-is-not-principally-due-to/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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