Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Love is the reason you were born.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

The only truth is love beyond reason.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

Love is all there is. That I know to be absolutely true.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.