Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"

When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

When I was born, God existed. But I never knew Him. I just never knew Him until Guru Maharaj Ji came into my life, till Guru Maharaj Ji came in my way, and showed me and revealed me that secret. And the day he did that, there it was, I knew God.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know?

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.