Selected quotes of Pope Benedict XVI offered daily for prayer and reflection….

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If our fundamental relationship with God is not living, if it is not lived, then none of our other relationships can take their correct form...If we do without God, if God is absent, we lack the compass...to show us the path, the direction we must follow. God! We must bring the truth of God back into the world, make Him known; make Him present.

 
Message to Participants
Italian Episcopal Conference
10 November 2009

 
 
 
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If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be “devout” and to perform my “religious duties”, then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely “proper”, but loveless. Only my readiness to encounter my neighbor and to show him love makes me sensitive to God as well.

 
Encyclical Letter
'Deus Caritas Est'

 
 
 
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We contribute to a better world only by personally doing good now, with full commitment and wherever we have the opportunity.

 
Encyclical Letter
'Deus Caritas Est'

 
 
 
To love
 


I implore everyone: drivers, passengers and pedestrians, to listen carefully to the words of St. Paul...‘Let us be awake and sober.'"
Our behavior on the road must be characterized by responsibility, attention and respect for others.
May the Virgin Mary guide us securely along the roads and highways of the world.

 
Angelus Address
Vatican
16 November 2008

 
 
 
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He who loves is born of God and knows God" (I Jn 4: 7). Therefore, to love according to God it is necessary to live in him and of him: God is the first "home" of human beings, and only by dwelling in God do men and women burn with a flame of divine love that can set the world "on fire".

 
Message for the
80TH WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 2006

 

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