Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through the ceiling and over the stars until I can find God, really see God, and know once and for all that everything I've believed my whole life is true, and real. Or, not even everything. Not even half. Just the part about someone or something bigger than us who doesn't lose track. I want to believe the stories, that there really is someone who would search the whole mountainside just to find that one lost thing that he loves, and bring it home.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.