Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

I believe Jesus Christ is God. I believe He loves every single human being that has ever lived, no matter what they have done, even if they don't believe in Him.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

It brings hope and peace of mind knowing that God gave His only begotten Son for us. I'm able to look back and know that on this day Jesus was born and gave us the opportunity to have eternal life.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.