Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

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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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• Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

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  Prayer, Mean, Drawing

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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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• To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

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  Justice, Desire, Charity

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.15, Ignatius Press

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• 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 we love God becomes a lie if we are closed to our neighbor or hate him altogether. Saint John's words should rather be interpreted to mean that love of neighbor is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and that closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God.

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  Hate, Lying, Mean

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• The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

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  Faith, Country, Art

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• In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church's supreme act of adoration.

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  Son, Holy Eucharist, Catholic

  Alcuin Reid, Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization”, p.81, A&C Black

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• God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.

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  Self, Perfect, Catholic

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• Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.

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  Life, Acceptance, Love Is

  Pope Benedict XVI's Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate, w2.vatican.va. June 29, 2009.

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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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• 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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• The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least particle, is a being in relation, and thus God-relation shines forth, ultimately creative Love shines forth. All comes from love, tends toward love, and is moved by love, naturally, according to different grades of consciousness and freedom... The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: only love makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and be loved.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Names

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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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• 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 expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.

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  Expression, Giving, Joy

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• Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

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  Silence, Want, Know Yourself

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• Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

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  Majority Vote, Catholic, Determined

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• How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

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  Faith, Inspiration, Space

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• The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

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  Pain, Suffering, Crosses

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• In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

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  Evil, Answers, Faces

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• Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

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  Light, Feet, Silence

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• If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

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  Heart, Secret, World

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• God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.

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  Faithful, Promise, Way

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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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• 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 greatest miracle of the universe: all the love of God hidden in a human heart, in a human face.

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  Real, Heart, Miracle

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