Quotes from Pope Benedict XVI
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.
- Pope Benedict XVI
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.
- Pope Benedict XVI
There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.
- Pope Benedict XVI
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.
- 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
Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.
- Pope Benedict XVI
But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.
- Pope Benedict XVI