Pope Benedict XVI Quotes - Page 5

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• We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Ears, Able

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• An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

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  Faith, Fashion, Adults

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• We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

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  Easter, Light, Stills

  Pope Benedict XVI (1998). “Milestones: Memoirs, 1927-1977”, p.6, Ignatius Press

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• Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

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  Country, Race, Ethnicity

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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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• 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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• 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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• Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

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  Wish, Trying, Too Much

  Pope Benedict XVI (2004). “Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions”, p.116, Ignatius Press

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• The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.

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• The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Soul

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.320, Ignatius Press

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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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• 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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• Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

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  Heart, Purity

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

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  Art, Saint, Apologetic

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• The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.

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  Safety, Justice, Humanity

  Encyclical Letter "Spe Salvi", w2.vatican.va. November 30, 2007.

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• It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion.

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  Christian, Women, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.199, Ignatius Press

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• For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

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  Brother, Rome, Joy

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• Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.

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  Believe, Expression, Risk

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• God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

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  Heart, Men, World

  "The prayer of Pope Benedict XVI at Ground Zero". www.catholicworldreport.com. September 11, 2015.

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• Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

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  Spiritual, Excellence, Church

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• May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest' and made himself small.

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  Light, Rays, May

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• The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Community, Encounters

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• [Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

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  Christian, Mean, Scary

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• Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense to lose ourselves to find ourselves subsequently enriched.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Sacrifice

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