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If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.

If we take the Lord's hand and let ourselves be guided by him, the path we take will be right and good.

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Hands, Path, Lord

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

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Greatness, Want, Facts
Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Mary”, USCCB

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

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People, Persons

Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.

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People, Joy, Encounters

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

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Church, Doe, Eucharist

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

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Faith, Believe, Inspiration

Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

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God Is Love, Conversation, Truth Of God

Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

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Faith, Inspiration, Relation
Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages”, p.223, Fortress Press

Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive. Yet if we are greedy, if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, then we make our possessions into a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

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Voice, Luxury, Long
Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.

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Struggle, Roots, Abortion

One who has hope lives differently.

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Having Hope

Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.

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Heart, Mean, Fullness Of Life
"God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald". Book by Peter Seewald, 2002.

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

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New Life, Demand, Easy

Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

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Giving, Joy, Gestures

The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

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Church, Facts, Constitution
"Cardinal Ratzinger on the Banishment of God From Public Life". zenit.org. April 11, 2005.

Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.

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Christian, Humble, Thoughtful

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

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Christian, Mean, Simple
Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Henry Taylor (2006). “What it Means to be a Christian: Three Sermons”, p.40, Ignatius Press

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

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Life, Love Is, Self
Eucharistic Celebration On The Occasion Of The 23-rd World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'

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Two, Treasure, Small Words

Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

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Country, Race, Ethnicity

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

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Jesus, Challenges, Tasks
Pope Benedict XVI's Address to The Bishops Of The Episcopal Conference Of Canada-Ontario On Their "Ad Limina" Visit, w2.vatican.va. September 8, 2006.

Holiness never goes out of fashion.

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Fashion, Holiness
Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.9, Ignatius Press

It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

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People, Doctrine, Helping
"Conservatives Catholics Disappointed At Pope Benedict’s Papacy" by David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

Pope Benedict XVI
Essence, Encounters, Speak

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite. It is “a deep wound in society”.

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Opposites, Pro Life, Abortion
Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting With The Authorities And The Diplomatic Corps in Hofburg, Vienna, w2.vatican.va. September 7, 2007.

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