Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
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I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.
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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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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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How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.
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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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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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Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.
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Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
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Christ offers more! Indeed he offers everything! Only he who is the Truth can be the Way and hence also the Life.
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Unlimited trust should only be placed in the real Word of the Revelation that we encounter in the faith transmitted by the Church.
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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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The primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity
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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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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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Projects for integral human development cannot ignore coming generations, but need to be marked by solidarity and inter-generational justice
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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 too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
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I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.