Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Light
  • Action

• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Take

• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Action

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• But in action, one defies one's character.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Character
  • Action

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Time
  • Action
  • Wish

• I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
  • Action
  • Doing

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Different
  • School
  • You

• In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Action
  • Play
  • Star

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Whether it is a call to action for blood drives, disaster relief, or just community outreach, the American Red Cross does an extraordinary job at not only meeting the immediate needs of a community, but also the preparation and planning for long-term support.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Long
  • Job
  • American

• Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Action
  • Corruption
  • Idleness

• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Different
  • Society

• Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

  

  Franklin Pierce Adams
  • Time
  • Health

• I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Mother
  • Creative

• The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
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  • Catholic