Friendship Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed…

— Edward Gibbon

“The “Spirit of sonship” that Paul speaks of is, therefore, an ability that the Holy Spirit gives us to approach God as a Father…

— Timothy J. Keller

“when the Greeks, having arrested the slaves of Christian catechumens, then used force against them, in order to learn from them some secret thing…

— The Church Fathers

“A bishop in Gaul could anoint a novitiate with oil from the olive orchards of Greece, bless the event with wine from the vineyards…

— William Rosen

“My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long time after. There was no…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Faith, then, for Paul is first of all cruciform participation with Christ that liberates participants from the hostile powers that rule human existence and…

— Michael J. Gorman

“Paul being now at Lystra, which was the boundary of his first excursion, and having visited the churches already planted, and delivered to them…

— William Carey

“Dominus noster ad templum sanctum suum vocare dignatus est,”under the cover of darkness, the Head could hear Father Paul’s voice droning on steadily in…

— Katharine Galgano

Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was in the flesh to the Father, and the apostles to Christ…

— Ignatius of Antioch

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the…

— Peter Adamson

For Paul, the Holy Spirit was an experienced reality.

— Hermann Gunkel

I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and…

— Pope Francis