Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
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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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At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.
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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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Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.
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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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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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The primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity
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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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One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use - not abuse - of natural resources
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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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Projects for integral human development cannot ignore coming generations, but need to be marked by solidarity and inter-generational justice
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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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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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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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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.