Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

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• Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

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  Life, Love Is, Self

  Eucharistic Celebration On The Occasion Of The 23-rd World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

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• Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.

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  Passing Away, World, Eternity

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.78, Ignatius Press

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• Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

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  Joy, Christ, Catholicism

  Pope Benedict XVI (2010). “Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass”, p.25, Ignatius Press

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• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

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  Heart, Hands, Order

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• Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

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  Results

  Mass, Imposition Of The Pallium And Conferral Of The Fisherman's Ring For The Beginning Of The Petrine Ministry Of The Bishop Of Rome, w2.vatican.va. April 24, 2005.

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• Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

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  God Is Love, Conversation, Truth Of God

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• Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

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  Church, Doe, Eucharist

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• The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Greatness

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• Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of the needs of others and of situations involving those whom the Gospel tells us are our neighbours. The gaze of Jesus, what “his eyes” teach us, leads to human closeness, solidarity, giving time, sharing our gifts and even our material goods.

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  Jesus, Eye, Giving

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting With Volunteer Associations in Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, w2.vatican.va. September 9, 2007.

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• Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

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  Humility, Darkness, Faces

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• The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

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  Essence, Encounters, Speak

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• God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Christian Inspirational

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.86, Ignatius Press

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• Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

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  Mistake, Doe, Holiness

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• Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

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  Adversity, Names, Weakness

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• Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

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  Giving, Joy, Gestures

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• Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages”, p.23, Fortress Press

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• 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 conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite. It is “a deep wound in society”.

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  Opposites, Pro Life, Abortion

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting With The Authorities And The Diplomatic Corps in Hofburg, Vienna, w2.vatican.va. September 7, 2007.

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• Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Relation

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages”, p.223, Fortress Press

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• Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

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  Heart, Welcome, Backgrounds

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• We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Voice

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• Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

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  Majority Vote, Catholic, Determined

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• If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

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  Love You, Catholic, Foundation

  Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger (2007). “Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration”, p.38, Image

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• If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.

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  Religious, Desire, Failing

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• Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything.

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  Giving, Christ

  "CNN Live" with Fionnuala Sweeney, edition.cnn.com. April 24, 2005.

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• Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.

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  People, Joy, Encounters

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