Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

Being filled with the Spirit is shown to have had a dynamic and energizing effect or power in the New Testament and in the lives of millions of people since then.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.

The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves.