We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman. ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received. Pope Benedict XVI More Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI More Quotes From Pope Benedict XVI With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity. Pope Benedict XVI inspiration faith heaven In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil. Pope Benedict XVI evil answers faces The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and charity. This is my confidence, this is my joy. Pope Benedict XVI community grace joy Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation...Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world. Pope Benedict XVI faithful light joy Faith in the resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being; the cry for unending life which is a part of the person is indeed answered... God exists: that is the real message of Easter. Anyone who even begins to grasp what this means also knows what it means to be redeemed. Pope Benedict XVI easter faith jesus God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love. Pope Benedict XVI certainty example heart Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. Pope Benedict XVI truth-of-god god-is-love conversation 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. Pope Benedict XVI heart men world A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to Pope Benedict XVI abortion catholic evil Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change? Pope Benedict XVI climate change reality Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor. Pope Benedict XVI toil responsibility wise For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith. Pope Benedict XVI rome brother joy We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands. Pope Benedict XVI ends hands fall Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person. Pope Benedict XVI dignity culture world In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence. Pope Benedict XVI hatred names religion My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity. They cannot, however, be understood apart from a profound reflection on the innate dignity of every human life from conception to natural death: a dignity conferred by God himself and thus inviolable. Pope Benedict XVI reflection justice profound The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. Pope Benedict XVI tradition catholic action Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. Pope Benedict XVI poverty fighting humanity This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world. Pope Benedict XVI heart order hands When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies it, when man is used and abused, leads -- like it or not -- to a descent into hell. Pope Benedict XVI used-and-abused practice men
