Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

I hope the day that all the Christians are one. This is my dream.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

Let us get rid of these devilish words, these names of party, of faction, of sedition—Lutheran, Huguenot, Papist—let us keep unadulterated the name of Christian.

Let's come together as the body of Christ and reach out and be the true hands and feet of Christ.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

Jesus did not say: 'One of you go', but 'All of you go': we are sent together.

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.

I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail at, or despise, any man: much less those who profess to believe in the same Master. But I pity them much; having the same assurance, that Jesus is the Christ, and that no Romanist can expect to be saved, according to the terms of his covenant.

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ

The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power

I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call.

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.