Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI quotes come in abundance, including The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Here are some quotes by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on faith, freedom, holiness, hope, love, and purpose.
Faith
1. Having faith means drawing support from the faith of your brothers and sisters, even as your own faith serves as a support for the faith of others.
Freedom
2. It is the truth revealed through Scripture and Tradition and articulated by the Church’s Magisterium that sets us free.
3. To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God’s love.
4. Freedom of conscience is the core of all freedom.
Holiness
5. Holiness does not consist in never having erred or sinned. Holiness increases the capacity for conversion, for repentance, for willingness to start again and, especially, for reconciliation and forgiveness.
6. I ask you to “abide” in the adoration of Christ, truly present in the Eucharist. I ask you to enter into conversation with him, to bring before him your questions and to listen to his voice.
Hope
7. One who has hope lives differently.
8. Apart from Jesus Christ risen from the dead, there can be no salvation! He alone can free the world from evil and bring about the growth of the Kingdom of justice, peace and love to which we all aspire.
Love
9. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!
10. Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.
11. The proper request of love is that our entire life should be oriented to the imitation of the Beloved. Let us therefore spare no effort to leave a transparent trace of God’s love in our life.
12. God loves us. This is the great truth of our life; it is what makes everything else meaningful. We are not the product of blind chance or absurdity; instead our life originates as part of a loving plan of God.
13. To acknowledge the beauty and goodness of marriage is to realize that only a setting of fidelity and indissolubility, along with openness to God’s gift of life, is adequate to the grandeur and dignity of marital love.
Purpose
14. The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
15. Life is not just a succession of events or experiences. It is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful. It is to this end that we make our choices; it is for this that we exercise our freedom; it is in this – in truth, in goodness and in beauty – that we find happiness and joy.
16. Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.
17. The desire for a more meaningful life is a sign that God created us and that we bear his “imprint”.
18. God is the source of life. To set God aside is to separate ourselves from that source and, inevitably, to deprive ourselves of fulfillment and joy.