Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

The mark of spirituality is the fragrance of Christ in our lives and the fragrance of Christ in every aspect of who we are as a person.

I do want to live my life in the right way and live my life close to God.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Make God first priority. He's worth it!

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.

Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.