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A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.
There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.
I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth
Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ
Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!
The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.
The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest' and made himself small.
Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.
God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.
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.
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.
During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives.
Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.
[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
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.
The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.
Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.
The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.
Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.
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.
Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.
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.
Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.
Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.
Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen.
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.
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.
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.
Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.
We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.
It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.