Best quotes by Pope Benedict XVI on Faith

Checkout quotes by Pope Benedict XVI on Faith

  • The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
    - Pope Benedict XVI
  • Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
    - Pope Benedict XVI
  • An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
    - Pope Benedict XVI
  • Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
    - Pope Benedict XVI
  • On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.
    - Pope Benedict XVI
  • Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.
    - Pope Benedict XVI
  • Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.
    - Pope Benedict XVI