Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Where there is love, there is God also.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.