Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

If you believe in God, you shouldn't worry. I know I'm one of His children and that He will stand by me.

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.

You have faith in God, and know he has a plan for me.

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

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

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

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

I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.