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

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Christian Life
 


We must be ready to preserve the grace received from the day of our Baptism, continuing to nourish faith in the Lord that prevents evil from taking root.

 
Angelus Address
Castelgandolfo
17 July 2011

 
 
 
Christian Life
 


Look about you with Christ's eyes, listen with his ears, feel and think with his heart and mind. Are you ready to give all as he did for truth and justice?... We must listen deeply. We must respond with a renewed social action that stems from the universal love that knows no bounds. In this way, we ensure that our works of mercy and justice become hope in action for others

 
Address
St. Joseph's Seminary
New York
19 April 2008

 
 
 
Christian Life
 


Christian life is a continual conformation to Christ, the image of the new man, in order to reach full communion with God.

 
Angelus Address
St Peter's Square
3 April 2011

 
 
 
Christian Life
 


Holiness, the fullness of Christian life, does not consist in carrying out extraordinary enterprises but in being united with Christ, in living his mysteries, in making our own his example, his thoughts, his behavior. The measure of holiness stems from the stature that Christ achieves in us, in as much as with the power of the Holy Spirit, we model our whole life on his.

 
General Audience
St. Peter's Square
13 April 2011

 
 
 
Christian Life
 


All believers feel the need to conform themselves to the sentiments of Christ's Heart, in order to love God and neighbour, as Christ Himself loves. And, indeed, we can all allow our hearts to be transformed and learn to love like Christ through familiarity with Him, nourished by prayer, mediation upon the Word of God and the Sacraments, especially...Holy Communion.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
24 November 2010

 
 
 
Christian Life
 


We are God's servants, we are not his creditors but are always indebted to him, because we owe him everything since everything is a gift from him. Accepting and doing his will is the approach to have every day, at every moment of our life.

 
Homily
Palermo, Italy
3 October 2010

 
 
 
Christian Life
 


How much we need, in the Church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendor of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! One of the greatest challenges facing us today is how to speak convincingly of the wisdom and liberating power of God’s word to a world which all too often sees the Gospel as a constriction of human freedom, instead of the truth which liberates our minds and enlightens our efforts to live wisely and well, both as individuals and as members of society.

 
Homily
Westminster Cathedral
London, England
18 September 2010

 
 
 
Christian Life
 


Christians are already saints because Baptism unites them to Jesus and to his Paschal Mystery, but at the same time they must become so by conforming themselves every more closely to him. Sometimes, people think that holiness is a privileged condition reserved for the few elect. Actually, becoming holy is every Christian's task, indeed, we could say, every person's!

 
Angelus Address
Solemnity of All Saints
St Peter's Square
1 November 2007

 

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