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" While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them. "

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" For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Dominant

God

" Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight. "

" In the harshness of the world of technology - in which feelings do not count anymore - the hope for a saving love grows, a love which would be given freely and generously. "

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

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

" Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Relationship

Live

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me. "

" 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. "

" At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures. "

" I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality. "

" It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society. "

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

" My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family. "

" In the 20th century, in the darkest period of German and European history, an insane racist ideology, born of neopaganism, gave rise to the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jews. The result has passed into history as the Shoah. "

" Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses. "

" 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 traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. "

" 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. "

" The myth of my solitude makes me laugh. "

Pope Benedict XVI

Myth

Laugh

" In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work. "

" 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. "

" God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself. "

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

" 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. "