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" It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality. "

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" We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Lie

See

Appearance

" 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

Prudence

Decisions

" 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. "

" We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves. "

" 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. "

" The myth of my solitude makes me laugh. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Myth

Laugh

" In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart. "

" God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as logos and, as logos, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Become

Push

" Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. "

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

" The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Lord

Vineyard

" The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace. "

" You can't talk about what you haven't felt. "

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

" 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. "

" The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life. "

" An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Faith

Adult

" The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us. "

" Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude. "

" The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil. "

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

" An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity. "

" The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. "

" It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy. "

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

" If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries. "

" 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. "

" A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions. "

" 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. "

" I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace. "