Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
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251. “The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

252. “All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

253. “I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

254. “Jesus, the Word incarnate, is always the center of our announcement, the point of reference for our evangelizing mission and for its methodology, because He is the human face of God, who wishes to meet all men and women so as to bring them into communion with Him, in His love.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

255. “We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

256. “Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

257. “People from the world’s richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

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258. “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

259. “Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

260. “How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space – the womb – has become a place of unutterable violence?”

— Pope Benedict XVI

261. “We throw ourselves down, as Jesus did, before the mystery of God’s power present to us, knowing that the Cross is the true burning bush, the place of the flame of God’s love, which burns but does not destroy.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

262. “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

263. “Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

264. “Holiness does not consist in never having erred or sinned. Holiness increases the capacity for conversion, for repentance, for willingness to start again and, especially, for reconciliation and forgiveness.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

265. “I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

266. “You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

267. “Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

268. “Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

269. “The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

270. “I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

271. “To me, its seems necessary to rediscover – and the energy to do so exists – that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man’s heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

272. “The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

273. “In Latin America in general, it’s very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

274. “Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

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275. “God is love. But love can also be hated when it challenges us to transcend ourselves. It is not a romantic “good feeling.” Redemption is not “wellness,” it is not about basking in self-indulgence; on the contrary it is a liberation from imprisonment in self-absorption. This liberation comes at a price: the anguish of the Cross. The prophecy of light and that of the Cross belong together.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

276. “As a spiritual being, the human creature is defined through interpersonal relations. The more authentically he or she lives these relations, the more his or her own personal identity matures. It is not by isolation that man establishes his worth, but by placing himself in relation with others and with God.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

277. “Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

278. “We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

279. “Tell others about the truth that sets you free.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

281. “Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!”

— Pope Benedict XVI

282. “In that sense these two moments – the virgin birth and the real resurrection from the tomb – are the cornerstones of faith. If.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

283. “In his self-offering on the Cross, Jesus, as it were, brings all the sin of the world deep within the love of God and wipes it away.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

284. “Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

285. “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

286. “We will never forget that blessing. It was the most pained and moving blessing, which left us with the extreme testimony of his will to complete his ministry until the end.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

287. “Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me – a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

288. “Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?”

— Pope Benedict XVI

289. “Jesus’ freedom is not the freedom of the liberal. It is the freedom of the Son, and thus the freedom of the truly devout person. As Son, Jesus brings a new freedom: not the freedom of someone with no obligations, but the freedom of someone totally united with the Father’s will, someone who helps mankind to attain the freedom of inner oneness with God.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

290. “We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

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291. “There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable of responding to the challenges of our times and prepared to spread the Gospel far and wide.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

292. “The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

293. “These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

294. “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

295. “The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

297. “Mary had said: “Your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.” Jesus corrects her: I am with my father. My father is not Joseph, but another – God himself. It is to him that I belong, and here I am with him. Could Jesus’ divine sonship be presented any more clearly?”

— Pope Benedict XVI

298. “Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

299. “We ask the Blessed Virgin for the gift of conversion for all Christians, so that they may announce and give a faithful and coherent witness to the perennial evangelical message, which indicates to humanity the path to an authentic peace.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

300. “I leave from where the apostle arrived.”

— Pope Benedict XVI