Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

• One who has hope lives differently.

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

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

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• Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

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

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• Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

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• I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

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• I leave from where the apostle arrived.

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

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• Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

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• 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 homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

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• We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Pope Benedict XVI (32)

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

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