Quotes from Pope Benedict XVI

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Dear young friends, the Lord is asking you to be prophets of this new age, messengers of his love, drawing people to the Father and building a future of hope for all humanity.

If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost - and that explains their missionary commitment - in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned.

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.

This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.