Pope Benedict XVI Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!”

“Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.”

“When the danger is great, one must not run away.”

“Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.”

“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”

“The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.”

“The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.”

“We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.”

“The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.”