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Other Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI
- 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…
- 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…
- The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the…
- Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not…
- For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for…
- The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become dreary itself; they…
- God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic…
- Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.
- From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what…
- Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
- Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word,…
- When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final…
- Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are…
- The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that…
- There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of…
- Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of…
- Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not…
- In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.
- Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of…
- While we too always seek other signs, other wonders, we do not realize that he is the real sign, God made flesh; he is the…
- The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development.…
- Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that…
- 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…
- Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.
- The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour