Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He's taking care of them. They're too beautiful and precious that He's not going to let anything happen to them.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I trust God speaks through me. Without that I could not do my job.

When you surrender to God, He makes things happen.

God has never failed. I can sit here and say this. There is not anything in my life that I've prayed according to the word of God and I've not seen God answer.

I believe that the Lord is going to take care of me. I know His will is the only way that can judge me or put me in my place.

God is good, and my health is in his hands.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.