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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• It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

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  Suffering, Fleeing, Unions

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

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  Majority Vote, Catholic, Determined

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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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• 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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• Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians... Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.

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  Christian, Philosophy, Heart

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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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• We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.

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  Fall, Hands, Ends

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Mary”, USCCB

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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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• Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

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  Greatness, Want, Facts

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Mary”, USCCB

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• We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

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  Moving, Goal, Ego

  "Profile: Pope Benedict XVI". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2005.

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• If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.

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  Hands, Path, Lord

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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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• There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.

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  Beautiful, Encounters, Speak

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• Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

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  Thinking, People, Evil

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• Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.

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  Father, Heart, Names

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• The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

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  People, Persons

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• One who has hope lives differently.

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  Having Hope

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• 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 God loves this person.

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  Soul, Looks, Faces

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• I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life and its joyful dimension and not to take everything too tragically. I'd also say it's necessary for my ministry. A writer once said that angels can fly because they don't take themselves too seriously. Maybe we could also fly a bit if we didn't think we were so important.

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  Angel, Men, Thinking

  "Pope Benedict XVI: 'We Have a Positive Idea to Offer'". German television interview, www.dw.com. August 13, 2006.

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