Quotes from Pope Benedict XVI
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.
- Pope Benedict XVI
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Truth is not determined by a majority vote.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.
- Pope Benedict XVI
God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.
- Pope Benedict XVI
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'
- Pope Benedict XVI
For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.
- Pope Benedict XVI
If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie.
- Pope Benedict XVI