Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

• The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

  Pope Benedict XVI

• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

• The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Pope Benedict XVI

• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

• Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

• Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today’s standards.

  Pope Benedict XVI

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

  Pope Benedict XVI

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

  Pope Benedict XVI

• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Topics in Religion

Pope Benedict XVI (32)

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

Related Authors

• Arthur Tatum Jr.
• Alfred Brendel
• Laura Nyro
• Melissa Etheridge
• Oscar Peterson
• Emanuel Ax
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Mose Allison
• Carl Maria von Weber
• Georg Solti

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 30th January

Births

• 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman
• 1871 - Seymour Hicks
• 1951 - Phil Collins
• 1951 - Tim Sample
• 1927 - Olof Palme

Deaths

• 1948 - Orville Wright
• 2007 - Sidney Sheldon
• 1926 - W. L. George
• 2006 - Wendy Wasserstein