Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

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• The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Greatness

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• Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

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  Results

  Mass, Imposition Of The Pallium And Conferral Of The Fisherman's Ring For The Beginning Of The Petrine Ministry Of The Bishop Of Rome, w2.vatican.va. April 24, 2005.

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• God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Christian Inspirational

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.86, Ignatius Press

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• Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

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  Mistake, Doe, Holiness

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• Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.

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  Culture, World, Dignity

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• Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

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  Adversity, Names, Weakness

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• Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

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  Majority Vote, Catholic, Determined

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• You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

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  Technology, Information, Computer

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• Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

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  Heart, Welcome, Backgrounds

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• Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

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  Joy, Christ, Catholicism

  Pope Benedict XVI (2010). “Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass”, p.25, Ignatius Press

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• God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.

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  Faithful, Promise, Way

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• If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

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  Love You, Catholic, Foundation

  Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger (2007). “Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration”, p.38, Image

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• We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Voice

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• The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

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  Pain, Suffering, Crosses

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• Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

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  Silence, Want, Know Yourself

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• May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.

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  Servant Of God, Joy, May

  “'I'm just a pilgrim,' Benedict XVI says in public farewell” by Laura Smith-Spark and Richard Allen Greene, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.

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  People, Joy, Encounters

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• When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.

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  Mean, Names, People

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• Holiness never goes out of fashion.

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  Fashion, Holiness

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.9, Ignatius Press

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• Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything.

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  Giving, Christ

  "CNN Live" with Fionnuala Sweeney, edition.cnn.com. April 24, 2005.

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• The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

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  Essence, Encounters, Speak

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• Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

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  Church, Doe, Eucharist

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• If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.

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  Hands, Path, Lord

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• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

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  Heart, Hands, Order

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• One who has hope lives differently.

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  Having Hope

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