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

Click here to go back to the archive menu.

 

 
Faith
 


We too ask: “what must we do to have eternal life?”. And Jesus says: “believe in me”. Faith is the fundamental thing. It is not a matter here of following an idea or a project, but of encountering Jesus as a living Person, of letting ourselves be totally involved by him and by his Gospel. Jesus invites us not to stop at the purely human horizon and to open ourselves to the horizon of God, to the horizon of faith. He demands a single act: to accept God’s plan, namely, to “believe in him whom he has sent”.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
5 August 2012

 
 
 
Faith
 


Believing constitutes the fundamental orientation of our life. To believe, to say, 'Yes, I believe that you are God, I believe that you are present among us in the Incarnate Son, ' gives my life a direction, impels me to be attached to God, to unite with God and so to find my dwelling place and the way to live.

 
Homily
St.Thomas of Villanova Parish
Castel Gandolfo
15 August 2006

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith, is not merely a cultural heritage, but the constant working of the grace of God who calls and our human freedom, which can respond or not to his call. Even if no one can answer for another person, Christian parents are still called to give a credible witness of their Christian faith and hope.

 
Homily
Fifth World Meeting of Families
Valencia, Spain
9 July 2006

 
 
 
Faith
 


We must give great attention to the development of our faith, so that it truly pervades all our attitudes, thoughts, actions and intentions.

 
Address
Częstochowa, Poland
26th May 2006

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith grows when it is lived as an experience of love received and when it is communicated as an experience of grace and joy. It makes us fruitful, because it expands our hearts in hope and enables us to bear life-giving witness: indeed, it opens the hearts and minds of those who listen, to respond to the Lord’s invitation to adhere to his word and become his disciples.

 
APOSTOLIC LETTER
'MOTU PROPRIO DATA'
PORTA FIDEI

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith is knowing the truth and adhering to it (cf. 1 Tim 2:4); charity is “walking” in the truth (cf. Eph 4:15). Through faith we enter into friendship with the Lord, through charity this friendship is lived and cultivated (cf. Jn 15:14ff).

 
Message for Lent, 2013

 
 
 
Faith
 


Faith enables us to recognize the gifts that the good and generous God has entrusted to us; charity makes them fruitful (cf. Mt 25:14-30).

 
Message for Lent 2013

 
 
 
Faith
 


Let us not be afraid to aim high, for God’s heights; let us not be afraid that God will ask too much of us, but let ourselves be guided by his Word in every daily action, even when we feel poor, inadequate, sinners. It will be he who transforms us in accordance with his love.

 
General Audience
St. Peter's Square
13 April 2011

 

2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  More >>