24 Quotations by Joseph Ratzinger
- 1. A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space t ...
- 2. Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their ow ...
- 3. Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less stro ...
- 4. As a mere exchange of material goods, Christmas is coming under the power of wanting-for-oneself; it ...
- 5. But that means that the Eucharist is far more than just a meal; it has cost a death to provide it, a ...
- 6. Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his ...
- 7. Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simp ...
- 8. Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism.. ...
- 9. In the Church, priests also are sinners. But I am personally convinced that the constant presence in ...
- 10. Love, in the true sense, is not always a matter of giving way, being soft, and just acting nice. In ...
- 11. Man was not just thrown up into the world by some quirk of evolution. The underlying truth is that e ...
- 12. Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity - not only a ph ...
- 13. That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail ...
- 14. The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by G ...
- 15. The Christian feast, the Eucharist, plumbs the very depths of death. It is not just a matter of piou ...
- 16. The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the ...
- 17. The Eucharist is not itself the sacrament of reconciliation, but in fact it presupposes that sacrame ...
- 18. The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love th ...
- 19. To be the first person baptized with the new water was seen as a significant act of Providence. I ha ...
- 20. To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political ...
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