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The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Greatness

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Christian Inspirational
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.86, Ignatius Press

We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Voice

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.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Believe, Inspiration

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

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

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Heart
Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church Through the Middle Ages”, p.23, Fortress Press

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Gift From God

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Fashion, Adults

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, World

The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Jesus, Inspiration
Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks”, p.34, Ignatius Press

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Space

For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Self
Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Children, Book

The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Sacrifice

If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.

Pope Benedict XVI
Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration
Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks”, p.35, Ignatius Press

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Humility
Pope Benedict XVI, Stephan Otto Horn, Vinzenz Pfnür (2003). “God is Near Us: The Eucharist, the Heart of Life”, p.37, Ignatius Press

Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Country, Art

Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Creative

The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least particle, is a being in relation, and thus God-relation shines forth, ultimately creative Love shines forth. All comes from love, tends toward love, and is moved by love, naturally, according to different grades of consciousness and freedom... The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: only love makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and be loved.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Names

Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public "yes" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Humility
Pope Benedict XVI's Angelus, w2.vatican.va. September 11, 2005.

Music, great music, distends the spirit, arouses profound emotions and almost naturally invites us to raise our minds and hearts to God in all situations of human existence, the joyful and the sad. Music can become prayer.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross that threshold when the word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on a journey that lasts a lifetime.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Heart

Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense to lose ourselves to find ourselves subsequently enriched.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Heart

Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever.

Pope Benedict XVI
Faith, Inspiration, Men

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