Quotes from Pope Benedict XVI
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
- Pope Benedict XVI
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
- Pope Benedict XVI
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
- Pope Benedict XVI
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.
- Pope Benedict XVI
God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
- Pope Benedict XVI
May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.
- Pope Benedict XVI
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.
- Pope Benedict XVI