Pope Benedict XVI Short Quotes

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I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

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Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.

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Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere licence

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Love is free; it is not practised as a way of achieving other ends.

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One must not fear truth, because it is a friend of man and of his freedom

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Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.

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Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

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

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

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Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.

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

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We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands.

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Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.

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Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

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To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

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The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure...

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Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

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Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

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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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In and of itself, the market is not, and must not become, the place where the strong subdue the weak.

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We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

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The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

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

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It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

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

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

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... Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

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Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

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Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

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