Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

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

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

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.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

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

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

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

Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us.