Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

• One who has hope lives differently.

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• Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

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• God’s love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

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• Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

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• The ‘commandment’ of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be ‘commanded’ because it has first been given.

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• The human person finds his perfection “in seeking and loving what is true and good.

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• The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

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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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• 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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• Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homos*xual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

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

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• Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

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• Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

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• The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

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• The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

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• The real “action” in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

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• To me, its seems necessary to rediscover – and the energy to do so exists – that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man’s heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.

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• Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

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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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• 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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Pope Benedict XVI (32)

Birth:	16th April, 1927
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Pianist, Professor

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