Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.

You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.

Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world.

'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.

I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery... we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness.