Quotes from Pope Benedict XVI
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.
- Pope Benedict XVI
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.
- Pope Benedict XVI
I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in your love for him and in the Gospel that you proclaim.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!
- Pope Benedict XVI