Truth Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Tell others about the truth that sets you free.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

— Pope Benedict XVI

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Liberation is our continual and fresh acceptance of truth as the path of life set before us.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning…

— Pope Benedict XVI

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“It is the question that is also asked by modern political theory: Can politics accept truth as a structural category? Or must…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“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

“It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused.…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“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

“We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an authoritative objection…

— Pope Benedict XVI

To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Let us say plainly: the unredeemed state of the world consists precisely in the failure to understand the meaning of creation, in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“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