God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other. — Pope Benedict XVI Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain. — Pope Benedict XVI Eternal love Copy Share Image
These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America. — Pope Benedict XVI America Copy Share Image
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. — Pope Benedict XVI Action Copy Share Image
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom… — Pope Benedict XVI Creator Copy Share Image
Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change? — Pope Benedict XVI Change Copy Share Image
“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness” — Pope Benedict XVI Catholic Copy Share Image
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much… — Pope Benedict XVI Church Copy Share Image
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future… — Pope Benedict XVI Conservative Copy Share Image
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI Death Copy Share Image
In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply… — Pope Benedict XVI Adoration Copy Share Image
Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission… — Pope Benedict XVI Acts of love Copy Share Image
“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Biblical Copy Share Image
I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything.… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is… — Pope Benedict XVI Action 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 Adults Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,… — Pope Benedict XVI Abortion Copy Share Image
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring… — 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… — Pope Benedict XVI Better world Copy Share Image
“The words "God said" appear ten times in the creation account. In this way the creation narrative anticipates the Ten Commandments. This… — Pope Benedict XVI Human freedom 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 Calmness Copy Share Image
Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic… — Pope Benedict XVI Abortion Copy Share Image
“The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.” — Pope Benedict XVI Divine Copy Share Image
What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!' — Pope Benedict XVI Inspirational Copy Share Image
It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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