Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

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• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Financial
  • Weapons
  • Finance

• If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Leader
  • Darkness

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Mean

• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Capacity

• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Texas

• As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Difficult
  • Relationships

• I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Love
  • Absorbed

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Good
  • Done
  • Education

• Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked.And death was observed with sudden cries,And birth with laughter and pain.And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skiesAnd night came down again.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Death
  • Night
  • Pain

• I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

  

  Peter Matthiessen
  • Writing
  • Attention

• Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Afghanistan

• The common root of modern science and Christian theology was Greek philosophy. The historical accident that caused the Christian religion to become heavily theological was the fact that Jesus was born in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire at the time when the prevailing culture was profoundly Greek.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Time
  • Science
  • Culture

• Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Faith
  • Religion

• The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

  

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