Бенедикт XVI цитаты

„Если целибат не будет обязательным для всех священников, а будет зависеть от персонального выбора, он потеряет свою теологическую сущность. Его значимость исчезнет, и он будет рассматриваться как обыкновенное чудачество.“

—  Бенедикт XVI

Источник: Немецкие теологи и политики потребовали отмены целибата http://lenta.ru/articles/2011/02/07/zoelibat/, Lenta.ru (8 февраля 2011).

„Его музыка безусловно не просто развлечение, в ней звучит вся трагедия человеческого бытия.“

—  Бенедикт XVI

О Моцарте

„Христианство прошлого сегодня нередко упрекают за то, что оно было противником телесности; действительно, тенденции подобного рода были всегда. Но и чрезмерное восхваление тела, свидетелями которого мы сегодня являемся, обманчиво.“

—  Бенедикт XVI

„Мы уверовали в любовь Бога – так христианин может выразить основополагающее решение своей жизни.“

—  Бенедикт XVI

„Любовь охватывает все существование в каждом из его измерений, включая измерение времени. Это не могло бы быть иначе, поскольку ее обещание нацелено на определенность: любовь стремится к вечности.“

—  Бенедикт XVI

„…благотворительность не может быть средством, используемым для того, что сегодня называется прозелитизмом. Любовь бескорыстна; она проявляется не для достижения каких бы то ни было целей.“

—  Бенедикт XVI

„Действительно, никто никогда не видел Бога таким, каким Он есть. И, тем не менее, Бог не является для нас полностью невидимым, Он не остается для нас просто недоступным. Бог первым возлюбил нас…“

—  Бенедикт XVI

„It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. … Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

from "Ratzinger denies Christianity 'superior' to Islam," Zenit.org via Catholic News, March 6, 2002
2002

„Life is not governed by chance; it is not random. Your very existence has been willed by God, blessed and given a purpose! 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.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2008, Papal Welcome (17 July 2008)

„There is more joy in giving than in receiving.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

Never doubt the truth of our Lord's promise that whatever we give him of our creativity, our resources, our persons, will come back to us in abundance.
2008, Closing Mass (19 July 2008)

„Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2000, The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)

„Projects for integral human development cannot ignore coming generations, but need to be marked by solidarity and inter-generational justice“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

„Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2000, The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)

„"Rock" [music]… is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2000, The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)

„How many questions arise in this place! Constantly the question comes up: Where was God in those days? Why was he silent? How could he permit this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil? … We must continue to cry out humbly yet insistently to God: Rouse yourself! Do not forget mankind, your creature!“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

On visited the former concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, on May 28, 2006. Quoted in The Watchtower magazine, in the article: “Why, Lord, Did You Remain Silent?”, (15 May 2007)
2007

„It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs… The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

"Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons," 1986, as reported by National Catholic Reporter
1980s

„Nature expresses a design of love and truth.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

„"There is more joy in giving than in receiving." Never doubt the truth of our Lord's promise that whatever we give him of our creativity, our resources, our persons, will come back to us in abundance.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

2008, Closing Mass (19 July 2008)

„[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.“

—  Pope Benedict XVI

Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI to the Bishops Priests and Deacons Men and Women Religious and All the Lay Faithful On Christian Hope, 30 November 2007
2007