All Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed… Acceptable
- The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own… Christ
- An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. Adult
- Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging… Abortion
- The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us,… Become Man
- We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. Catholic
- I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace. Catholic
- The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is… Anyone
- Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification… Christ
- I leave from where the apostle arrived. Apostle
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and… Allows
- We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other… Correct
- Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,… Disorder
- Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of… Brother
- Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man… Alone
- Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic… Agnostic
- Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. Applied
- Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences… Consequence
- The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable… Church
- Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. Accepted
- God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of… All
- In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart. America
- 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 good. Arbitrariness
- Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. Church
- We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. Aquariums