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" 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. "

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" Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer. "

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" The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy. "

" 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! "

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

" Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange. "

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

" God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus. "

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

" One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality. "

" I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. "

" Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?' "

" 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 form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason. "

" I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way. "

" Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ. "

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

" I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God. "

" We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world. "

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" If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations. "

" The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament. "

" Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people. "

" Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive. "

" 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. "

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