Authors:

Pope Benedict XVI Quotes - Page 18

All Quotes Abortion Adoration Age Art Atheism Baptism Catholicism Certainty Challenges Charity Children Choices Christ Christianity Church Commitment Communion Community Country Culture Darkness Desire Dignity Diversity Earth Easter Effort Ego Eternity Eucharist Evil Exercise Failing Faith Fashion Fighting Giving Grace Greatness Growth Hatred Heart Heaven Humanity Humility Inspiration Jesus Journey Joy Justice Life Lying Mercy Pain Passion Poverty Prayer Pride Progress Prohibition Reality Reflection Relativism Religion Responsibility Risk Sacrifice School Silence Son Soul Suffering Sunday Sustainability Temptation Today Tradition Understanding Unity Violence Waiting War Weakness
It is important always to know that the first word, the true initiative, the true activity comes from God and only by inserting ourselves into the divine initiative, only begging for this divine initiative, shall we too

It is important always to know that the first word, the true initiative, the true activity comes from God and only by inserting ourselves into the divine initiative, only begging for this divine initiative, shall we too be able to become - with him and in him - evangelizers.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Important

One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.

Pope Benedict XVI
Christian, Ideas, Giving

At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply expects us to stand by him and to believe what these wounds tell us, even though we cannot work right through the logic of this world.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Believe

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

Pope Benedict XVI
Past, Sacred, Lineage
"Gloria in excelsis deo: Britain tunes in to its spiritual side" by Stephen Pritchard, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2014.

[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Pope Benedict XVI
Suffering, World, Injustice
"Spe Salvi". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, w2.vatican.va. November 30, 2007.

Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a new humanity. Nowadays, in a special way, the world needs people capable of proclaiming and bearing witness to God who is love, and consequently the one light which in the end, illumines the darkness of the world and gives us strength to live and work

Pope Benedict XVI
Light, Giving, People

Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world!....Employ these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News of God's infinite love for all people, will resound in new ways across our increasingly technological world!

Pope Benedict XVI
Technology, People, News
"Pope calls for Internet evangelists". www.catholicnewsagency.com. May 20, 2009.

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us.

Pope Benedict XVI
Simple, Data, Knowing
Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.151, Ignatius Press

the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and the Church there is no opposition: despite the sins of the people who make up the Church, they are inseparable. Therefore, a slogan that was popular some years back, 'Jesus yes, Church no,' is totally inconceivable with the intention of Christ. This individualistically chosen Jesus is an imaginary Jesus.

Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus, Years, Guarantees That
Pope Benedict XVI (2016). “Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Church”, p.8, Ignatius Press

If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ dwell within you, and having placed all your faith and trust in Him, spread this hope around you. Make choices that demonstrate your faith.

Pope Benedict XVI
Spiritual, Jesus, Choices
Message for World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. February 22, 2009.

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

Pope Benedict XVI
People, Justice, His Love

I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth. Much remains to be done, particularly on the level of preaching and catechesis in parishes and schools, if the new evangelization is to bear fruit for the renewal of ecclesial life in America.

Pope Benedict XVI
Heart, School, Thinking
Pope Benedict XVI's Speech Before The Bishops Of The United States At The National Shrine Of The Immaculate Conception In Washington, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2008.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

Pope Benedict XVI
Art, Two, Church

For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend.

Pope Benedict XVI
Teacher, Men, Encounters
Address to the participants of the international congress «UNIV 2006», w2.vatican.va. April 10, 2006.

Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general the whole of our Christian life begins with the proclamation that comes to us from one or several witnesses. But we ourselves must be personally involved in an intimate and profound relationship with Jesus.

Pope Benedict XVI
Christian, Jesus, Profound

Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI
People, Giving, Creative

Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important.

Pope Benedict XVI
Space, People, Important

Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.

Pope Benedict XVI
Passion, Rocks, Expression
"The Spirit of the Liturgy". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, 2000.

Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.

Pope Benedict XVI
Prayer, Father, News
"Pope, Anglican Head Offer Prayers for London Victims" by Pauline J. Chang, www.christianpost.com. July 7, 2005.

Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are today missionaries on other continents.

Pope Benedict XVI
Joy, Today, Lord

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

Pope Benedict XVI
Reality, Light, Evil

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested.

Pope Benedict XVI
Journey, Humanity, Church

If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries.

Pope Benedict XVI
People, Able, Christ
Message for World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. February 22, 2009.

The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide us as stewards of his creation. Precisely from within this framework, the Church considers matters concerning the environment and its protection intimately linked to the theme of integral human development.

Pope Benedict XVI
Order, Design, Church
Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.33, CUA Press

Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

Pope Benedict XVI
Teacher, Adventure, Gathering

You May Also Like: