Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
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Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
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You are called to exercise the Spirit's gifts amidst the ups and downs of your daily life. Let your faith mature through your studies, work, sports, music and art. Let it be sustained by prayer and nurtured by the sacraments.
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Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.
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The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.
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The Holy Spirit! This is the Spirit's role: to bring Christ's work to fulfillment. Enriched with the Spirit's gifts, you will have the power to move beyond the piecemeal, the hollow utopia, the fleeting, to offer the consistency and certainty of Christian witness!
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Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth about God and about us. By its nature, relativism fails to see the whole picture. It ignores the very principles that enable us to live and flourish in unity, order and harmony.
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Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed 'too big to fail.'
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The primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity
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One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use - not abuse - of natural resources
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That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now … which is significant for the world.
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In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.
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Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
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Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith: this also holds true for political reason, which must not consider itself omnipotent. For its part, religion always needs to be purified by reason in order to show its authentically human face. Any breach in this dialogue comes only at an enormous price to human development.
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I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
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Projects for integral human development cannot ignore coming generations, but need to be marked by solidarity and inter-generational justice
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The market does not exist in the pure state. It is shaped by the cultural configurations which define it and give it direction.
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Every economic decision has a moral consequence.
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Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.
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I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.