For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bish...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless l...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.
POPE BENEDICT XVI A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to...
POPE BENEDICT XVI God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and pe...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the m...
POPE BENEDICT XVI To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive f...
POPE BENEDICT XVI A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space t...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by G...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce a...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.
POPE BENEDICT XVI Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simp...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I leave from where the apostle arrived.
POPE BENEDICT XVI Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical tha...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an...
POPE BENEDICT XVI All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches...
POPE BENEDICT XVI If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not ba...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The Church is not self-made, it was created by God and is continuously formed by Him. This finds exp...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Sc...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcome...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requiremen...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.
POPE BENEDICT XVI Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resource...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, real...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete...
POPE BENEDICT XVI In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I en...
POPE BENEDICT XVI In the harshness of the world of technology - in which feelings do not count anymore - the hope for ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We know well that this truth risks being contradicted by the hedonism of the so-called well-off soci...
POPE BENEDICT XVI True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey.
POPE BENEDICT XVI The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individua...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whe...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks bef...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is th...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women...
POPE BENEDICT XVI If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due a...
POPE BENEDICT XVI On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost b...
POPE BENEDICT XVI A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for hol...
POPE BENEDICT XVI God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, real...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We can be sure our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father's house, that he sees ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you,...
POPE BENEDICT XVI An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
POPE BENEDICT XVI Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a per...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we m...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Behind these texts, I feel the presence of the pope himself, of a person who has gone to the Lord, b...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very posit...
POPE BENEDICT XVI God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Litu...
POPE BENEDICT XVI If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we tru...
POPE BENEDICT XVI If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can ma...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. T...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who d...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong...
POPE BENEDICT XVI How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of th...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good,...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of co...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI In each of them, like in the manger of Bethlehem, Jesus knocks at the door of our hearts, asking tha...
POPE BENEDICT XVI In the particular moment that Italy has been living through in these months, may the risen Lord brin...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here t...
POPE BENEDICT XVI After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in lit...
POPE BENEDICT XVI To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from the...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Today, the Lord puts us on guard against the self-reliance that puts a limit on his limitless love. ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
POPE BENEDICT XVI Even today there is need for conversion to God, to the God of love so that the world is freed from w...
POPE BENEDICT XVI This all requires further agreements, so in that sense these are preliminary discussions. But it see...
POPE BENEDICT XVI In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ? wh...
POPE BENEDICT XVI You should bring joy, not expensive gifts that cost time and money.
POPE BENEDICT XVI Joy is the true gift of Christmas, not expensive gifts that cost time and money, but joy.
POPE BENEDICT XVI The modern age is often seen as an awakening of reason from its slumbers, humanity's enlightenment a...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The whole experience was uplifting.
POPE BENEDICT XVI May all those who stop to contemplate the statue be encouraged to live their daily work in the spiri...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Either we make him a simple devout expression, or he is denied everything, he is banished from publi...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his f...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
POPE BENEDICT XVI in the service of the Church.
POPE BENEDICT XVI Both popes in their youth -- both on different sides and in different situations -- were forced to e...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruct...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Dear brothers and sisters after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simpl...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be ser...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Today, even in this modern age marked by anxiety and uncertainty, we live the event of the resurrect...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Something I constantly notice is that unembarrassed joy has become rarer. Joy today is increasingly ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continu...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive an...
POPE BENEDICT XVI A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for hol...
POPE BENEDICT XVI All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my d...
POPE BENEDICT XVI "It is understandable that you find it hard to forgive or be reconciled with the Church. In her name...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign tha...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.
POPE BENEDICT XVI There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be disco...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain a...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being c...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European l...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gest...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.
POPE BENEDICT XVI The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love th...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Cou...
POPE BENEDICT XVI I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of pr...
POPE BENEDICT XVI How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this...
POPE BENEDICT XVI In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is...
POPE BENEDICT XVI There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both ro...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is th...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.
POPE BENEDICT XVI The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Chr...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an auth...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been...
POPE BENEDICT XVI In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every pers...
POPE BENEDICT XVI The cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.
POPE BENEDICT XVI Christianity is always called to seek justice, but it bears within the impulse of love, that goes be...
BENEDICT XVI Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental...
BENEDICT XVI This unbounded and almost incomprehensible love of God for man shows to what point the human person ...
BENEDICT XVI To welcome the Redeemer in his life is for man a source of profound joy, a joy that can give peace e...
BENEDICT XVI The service that may be offered to the faithful and non-Christian spouses who are going through diff...
BENEDICT XVI These children have suffered a most violent trauma. We must help them to be able to forget the trage...
BENEDICT XVI I am certain that I echo your own thoughts when I bring up as one of our concerns the spread of terr...
BENEDICT XVI These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America...
BENEDICT XVI A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the...
BENEDICT XVI Just as the life of Jesus, in his obedience and dedication to the Father, is a living parable of the...
BENEDICT XVI Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute ...
DIRK BENEDICT There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are ge...
DIRK BENEDICT Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not e...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it...
DIRK BENEDICT The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone i...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ...
RUTH BENEDICT I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. ...
BENEDICT SPINOZA We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on t...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap y...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa...
RUTH BENEDICT I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was act...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorro...
DIRK BENEDICT I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
RUTH BENEDICT I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with inter...
DIRK BENEDICT Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BENEDICT SPINOZA None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BENEDICT SPINOZA Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things...
BENEDICT SPINOZA If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
BENEDICT SPINOZA All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BENEDICT SPINOZA None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA Desire is the essence of a man.
BENEDICT SPINOZA He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody.
BENEDICT LUCCHESI He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI Merck has been extremely good to me over the years,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI [The researcher was warning that] you can't just give this to anybody, ... You have to identify peop...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI They don't mind killing patients,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI They are trying to tell the leadership (about the risks) before they go out and launch this drug to ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI I don't know that I owe them an apology,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI Based on the science, there's every reason to believe that a single dose, multiple doses, whatever, ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI When I first read that, I personally became enraged,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seam...
BENEDICT ARNOLD Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any f...
BENEDICT ARNOLD If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...
BENEDICT ARNOLD Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our A...
BENEDICT ARNOLD I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a d...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended...
DIRK BENEDICT My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH