Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

Pope Benedict XVI

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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Religion

• I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Community

• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Believe
  • America

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Faith

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Community

• I have faith in my imperfections!

  

  Dana Delany
  • Faith
  • Imperfections

• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Blind

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Hand
  • Adventure
  • Go

• Repeating is harder than anything else.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Anything
  • Else
  • Repeating

• I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Faith
  • Mystic

• I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Faith

• Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.

  

  Margo Georgiadis
  • Children
  • Done
  • Space

• Any such material, received through the board, through automatic writing, or voice communication, should be carefully studied. Generally speaking, if your messages claim to originate from famous dead personalities, you can discount them as valid information. In all probability, they are creative fabrications of your own personal subconscious.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Writing
  • Famous
  • Communication

• At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

  

  Klaus Fuchs
  • Time
  • Death
  • Confidence

• Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Meditation

• Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Faith