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• Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to changes and development in the accents of my thought, my basic impulse, precisely during the Council, was always to free up the authentic kernel of the faith from encrustations and to give this kernel strength and dynamism. This impulse is the constant of my life ... what's important to me is that I have never deviated from this constant, which from my childhood has molded my life, and that I have remained true to it as the basic direction of my life.

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  Giving, Childhood, Important

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• Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

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  Christian, Israel, Hands

  "God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald". Book by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, October 06, 2000.

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• Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

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  Self, Analysis, Lasts

  Pope Benedict XVI (2004). “Introduction to Christianity”, p.73, Ignatius Press

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• A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

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  Religious, Responsibility, Building Up

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on Laicism and Sexual Ethics". zenit.org. November 19, 2004.

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• We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.

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  Faith, Philosophy, Distance

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• Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

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  Assessment, Agreement, People

  Message Of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI For The Celebration Of The World Day Of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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• We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.

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  Looks, Christ, Adoration

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• Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.

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  Ocean, Order, Erosion

  Pope Benedict XVI's address during The XXIII World Youth Day in Sydney Harbour, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 17, 2008.

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• From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.

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  Men, Rivers, Water

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• While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.

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  Flames, Challenges, Faces

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• The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.

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  Wrath, Way, Grows

  "God and the World. Believing and Living in Our Time". Book by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, June 11, 2002.

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• Mission is a workshop where there is room for all.

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  Rooms, Missions, Workshops

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• These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.

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  America, United States, Hurricanes

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• [Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

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  Jesus, People, Christ

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• The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that He Himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through His Passion and thereby also implements it.

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  Jesus, Passion, Doe

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• Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

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  Art, Reality, Men

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• If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

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  Office, Realizing, Pope

  "Pope says in book he would resign if incapacitated". www.reuters.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples. They saw where he lived and began to know him. They would not have to be heralds of an idea, but witnesses of a person. Before being sent to evangelize, they would have to "be" with Jesus (cf. Mark 3:14), establishing a personal relationship with him. With this foundation, evangelization is no more than a proclamation of what has been experienced and an invitation to enter into the mystery of communion with Christ (cf. 1 John 13).

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  Teacher, Jesus, Adventure

  "Apostles Proclaim Christ, Not an Idea, Says Pope". zenit.org. March 22, 2006.

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• Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

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  Catholic, Unity, Shepherds

  "Mass, Imposition of the Pallium And Conferral of the Fisherman's Ring For the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry Of the Bishop of Rome". Speech by Pope Benedict XVI at the St. Peter's Square, w2.vatican.va. April 24, 2005.

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• Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

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  Sister, Brother, Humble

  Remarks from balcony at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 19 Apr. 2005

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• I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

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  Believe, Men, Important

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• The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who is Love. To you young people, who are in search of a firm hope, I address the very words that Saint Paul wrote to the persecuted Christians in Rome at that time: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Rom 15:13).

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  Christian, Believe, Rome

  Message for World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. February 22, 2009.

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• Do not be afraid to say “yes” to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will...

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  Jesus, Joy

  Pope Benedict XVI's Holy Mass for the 23rd World Youth Day at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

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• We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

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  Catholic, Shepherds, Good Shepherd

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• In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nuclear arms, or those planning to acquire them- agree to change their course by clear and firm decision and strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament. The resources which would be saved could then be employed in projects of development capable of benefiting all their people, especially the poor.

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  Religious, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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