Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Intelligence and love are not in separate compartments: love is rich in intelligence and intelligence is full of love.” — Pope Benedict XVI Intelligence Copy Share Image
We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us… — Pope Benedict XVI Compassion Copy Share Image
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in… — Pope Benedict XVI Brother Copy Share Image
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 Adoration Copy Share Image
The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for… — Pope Benedict XVI Comfort Copy Share Image
The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and… — Pope Benedict XVI Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
We ask the Blessed Virgin for the gift of conversion for all Christians, so that they may announce and give a faithful… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and… — Pope Benedict XVI Bishops Copy Share Image
Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little… — Pope Benedict XVI Christmas Copy Share Image
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ 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 Charity Copy Share Image
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment… — Pope Benedict XVI Action Copy Share Image
In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The three-volume work on Jesus Christ, on its own, makes this pontificate unique. With it, Benedict XVI created a handbook for the… — Pope Benedict XVI Benedict xvi Copy Share Image
“If the painful history of the human and Christian striving for God proves anything, it surely proves this: that any attempt to… — Pope Benedict XVI History Copy Share Image
Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult"… — Pope Benedict XVI Adults Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to this. A theory was even… — Pope Benedict XVI Catholic Copy Share Image
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of… — Pope Benedict XVI Authentic happiness Copy Share Image
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian… — Pope Benedict XVI Lineage Copy Share Image
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each… — Pope Benedict XVI Thought Copy Share Image
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. — Pope Benedict XVI Charity Copy Share Image
Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom — Pope Benedict XVI Freedom Copy Share Image
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world -… — Pope Benedict XVI Christ Copy Share Image
A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God. — Pope Benedict XVI Cynicism Copy Share Image
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in… — Pope Benedict XVI Catholic Copy Share Image
“So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer.” — Pope Benedict XVI Hope Copy Share Image
We will never forget that blessing. It was the most pained and moving blessing, which left us with the extreme testimony of… — Pope Benedict XVI Blessing Copy Share Image
An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known… — Pope Benedict XVI Beautiful Copy Share Image
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness. — Pope Benedict XVI Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of… — Pope Benedict XVI Catholic Copy Share Image
The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art,… — Pope Benedict XVI Art Copy Share Image
“We have come to believe in God's love: in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. Being… — Pope Benedict XVI Believe in god Copy Share Image