Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Sometimes, I feel like I'm lost. But I've always said that I believe in God.

The truest definition of faith is having the belief you're going somewhere that you can't see, whether it's religion or football or learning to ride a bike.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

I don't think God's through with me.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

Everybody wants to be winners - you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can't see it.

Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.

I don't know what tomorrow holds. None of us do. We got to wait and see what God has planned.