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Jesus Christ
 


It is not enough to be more or less like everyone else and to think like everyone else. Our lives have a deeper purpose. We need God, the God who has shown us His face and opened His heart to us: Jesus Christ.

 
Homily
Marian Shrine of Mariazell
Austria
8 September 2007

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


Open your homes and your hearts to Christ so that he will be your strength and your joy, and help you to live in harmony, and to proclaim before the world the invincible power of true love.

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

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


The world needs God. We need God. But what God? Jesus, the Son of God incarnate. His 'vengeance' is the Cross: a 'no' to violence and a 'love to the end.' This is the God we need.

 
Homily
Munich, Germany
10 September 2006

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


Our entire existence must be directed toward meeting Jesus Christ, toward love for Him. In such an existence, love for our neighbor must take a central position; that love that, in light of the Crucifix, allows us to recognize the face of Jesus in the poor, the weak, and in those who are suffering.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
Vatican City
16 January 2013

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


[If we call Jesus] the one universal Mediator of salvation, this does not mean that we despise other religions, nor that we are arrogantly proposing the absolutism of our own ideas; on the contrary, it means that we are gripped by Him Who has touched our hearts and lavished gifts upon us, so that we, in turn, can offer gifts to others.

 
Homily
Marian Shrine of Mariazell
Austria
8 September 2007

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


Through his love, Jesus Christ attracts to himself the people of every generation: in every age he convokes the Church, entrusting her with the proclamation of the Gospel by a mandate that is ever new.

 
Apostolic Letter
'MOTU PROPRIO DATA'
PORTA FIDEI
For the indication of the Year of Faith

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


‘Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing,’
Jesus taught His disciples, reminding them of the human being’s essential incapacity to carry out alone that which is necessary for the true good. On the contrary, accepting faith makes human persons capable of giving themselves…thus of discovering the extent of being a human person.

 
Tribunal of the Roman Rota
Clementine Hall
26 January 2013

 
 
 
Jesus Christ
 


Jesus is not an earthly king who rules, but a king who serves, who bends to man's level to meet not only his material hunger, but his deeper hunger, his hunger for guidance, meaning and truth, his hunger for God.

 
Angelus Address
Castelgandolfo
29 July 2012

 

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