Quotes from Pope Benedict XVI

This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Today, society does not talk about hell. It's as if it did not exist, but it does. There is eternal punishment for those who sin and do not repent.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.