Pope Benedict XVI Quotes - Page 5

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

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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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• 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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• With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.

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  Rosary, Shapes, Mystery

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

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  Religious, Political, Church

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• Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.

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  Eye, Giving, Looks

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

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  Art, Saint, Apologetic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Personal Responsibility

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• No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.

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  Men, Law, Foundation

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• For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Self

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

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