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Catholicism Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI
- We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
- Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity.
- We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and…
- Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for…
- Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.
- It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.
- Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but…
- It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element…
- We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
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- Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone
- All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. — Thomas Aquinas
- To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. — Thomas Aquinas
- I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. — Charles Dickens
- In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects. — Philip Neri