Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.

See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.

We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is Saint Benedict's reminder to the Abbot of a monastery, inviting him to consult even the youngest members of the community: "By the Lord's inspiration, it is often a younger person who knows what is best".

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving help from Sangha.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.