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Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Earth
#Survive
#Talking
#Us
#Want
Above all, 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.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Great
#Legal
#Marriage
#Reality
#Respect
Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Clear
#Fact
#Human
#Intelligence
#Origin
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Alone
#Art
#God
#Man
#Science
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Choices
#Freedom
#Person
#Responsibility
God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Faith
#God
#Lose
#Vision
#World
On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Faith
#God
#Love
#Me
#Way
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!
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Beauty
#Freedom
#Relationship
#Truth
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Church
#Moral
#Politics
#Say
#Sense
I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Friendship
#God
#Hands
#Myself
#Trust
It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Church
#Important
#Life
#Liturgy
There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Belief
#Christmas
#Discouraged
#Who
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Experience
#Important
#People
#Trust
Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Choose
#Decisions
#Dialogue
#Path
#Than
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Death
#God
#Son
#Words
#Worth
God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Change
#God
#Love
#Unity
#Words
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Ethics
#Me
#Own
#Responsibility
#Today
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Abortion
#Death
#Diversity
#Opinion
#War
Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Direction
#Faith
#Prayer
#Sun
#Truth
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Action
#God
#Liturgy
#New
#Real
Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#God
#Justice
#Mercy
#Sight
#Us
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Accept
#Decisions
#Mean
#Prudence
#Road
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Church
#Moral
#Party
#Political
#Power
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
#God
#Men
#Peace
#Women
#World
All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Art
#Baroque
#God
#Gothic
#Great
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Freedom
#Religion
#Society
#Space
#Up
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.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Great
#Legal
#Marriage
#Reality
#Respect
God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Distant
#Face
#God
#He
#Stranger
We need Grace and forgiveness.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Forgiveness
#Grace
#Need
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Attitude
#Faith
#Look
#Today
#Wind
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Christmas
#Faith
#God
#Man
#Time
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
- Pope Benedict XVI
#Anything
#Dictatorship
#Ego
#Moving
#Own
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