Benedikt XVI. citáty strana 4

„Pokud se v liturgii tleská lidským úspěchům, je to vždy jasné znamení, že podstata liturgie se zcela ztratila a nahradil ji druh náboženské zábavy. Taková přitažlivost netrvá dlouho; na trhu volnočasových aktivit, kde různé formy religiozity stále více fungují jako jakýsi stimulant, je konkurence nepřekonatelná. Sám jsem zažil situaci, kdy akt pokání vystřídalo taneční vystoupení, které bylo samozřejmě odměněno potleskem; je možné jít ještě dále od toho, co je skutečné pokání?“

„V době největšího úspěchu se Evropa stává vnitřně prázdnou, je paralyzována ohrožující krizí, která ohrožuje její zdraví, je závislá na transplantacích.“

Zdroj: Duch liturgie

„Nesmíme se spokojit s ekumenickými úspěchy v posledních letech, protože nemůžeme pít z jednoho poháru a být spolu shromážděni kolem oltáře.“

Zdroj: Values in Times of Upheaval, 2005

„Pokrok je možný pouze ve společnosti, v níž existují morální hodnoty a silná přesvědčení.“

při náštěvě římského evangelického kostela
Zdroj: [Pápež Benedikt XVI. navštívil evanjelický kostol v Ríme, Křesťan dnes, 2010-03-16, 2010-05-26, http://cs.christiantoday.com/article/papez-benedikt-xvi-navstivil-evanjelicky-kostol/16572.htm]

„Nedoložené, nebo nedostatečně doložené výroky, v budoucnosti mohou být smazány“

Přisuzované

„Nejlepší katechezí o eucharistii je eucharistie sama, dobře slavená.“

Přisuzované

Benedikt XVI. kniha Sacramentum Caritatis

„V eucharistii se uskutečňuje ono společenství, které odpovídá svazku muže a ženy v manželství: jako se dva stávájí "jedním tělem", tak se všichni ve společenství stávají "jedním duchem", jedním v Něm.“

Benedikt XVI. kniha Duch liturgie

„Vykoupení, spasení… podle křesťanské víry není jen obyčejná událost. Bylo nám obětováno vykoupení v tom smyslu, že jsme dostali naději, spolehlivou naději, se kterou můžeme čelit naší přítomnosti. Přítomnost, i tu tíživou, lze prožít a přijmout, pokud má svůj účel a pokud si můžeme být tímto účelem jisti.“

Benedikt XVI. kniha Spe Salvi

„Je důležité, že církev není naše, ale Kristova. Pouze Jeho Církev, kterou jsme nestvořili, která pochází od Něho, a která je mimo naši představivost, může přežít. Potřebujeme pokoru a víru, abychom se Mu otevřeli.“

Benedikt XVI. kniha Hlad po Bohu

„Následovat Krista znamená dbát o jeho přikázání, cítit soucit s trpícími, mít srdce pro chudé; znamená to také mít odvahu bránit víru proti ideologii, důvěřovat církvi a jejímu výkladu. Podstata nebe je v tom, že se tam neustále plní Boží vůle, nebo trochu jinak řečeno: kde se plní Boží vůle, tam je nebe.“

„Vzhledem k tomu, že člověk je vždy svobodný a jeho svoboda je vždy křehká, nebude na tomto světě nikdy definitivně ustanovené království dobra.“

Zdroj: Poslední rozhovory

Benedikt XVI. Spe salvi

Zdroj: Spe salvi

„Historie ukazuje, že misijní svědectví církve odtržené od světa je viditelnější. Když je církev odtržena od břemen, materiálních a politických privilegií, může účinněji a skutečně křesťansky oslovit celý svět, skutečně se světu otevřít. Církev se otevírá světu, ne aby získala příznivce instituce s vlastními nároky, ale aby je přivedla k nalezení sebe sama.“

„Všechno to začíná tím, že na Něho nemáme čas. Čím rychleji jsme schopni se pohybovat, čím efektivnější jsou nástroje pro úsporu času, tím méně času máme k dispozici.“

Zdroj: Poznání pravdy. Papežské přednášky.

„Během liturgie vstupujeme do něčeho mnohem většího; svým způsobem se necháváme ponořit do prostoru bez hranic. Liturgie je v podstatě proces, kterým se necháváme uvést do velké víry a velké modlitby církve. Tento vztah s nebem a zemí je velmi důležitý.“

Zdroj: Má víra

„Podstatným obsahem evangelia podle svatého Jana je poselství, že pravda nevládne silou, ale svou vnitřní silou: Ježíš vyznává Pilátovi, že je pravdou a svědkem pravdy. Nehájí pravdu legií, ale zviditelňuje a zefektivňuje ji svým vlastním utrpením.“

Zdroj: Proč věřím?

„Být člověkem je jako lézt po horské stezce plné strmých svahů. Ale pouze procházením takových cest lze dosáhnout výšin a zažít krásu existence.“

Zdroj: Světlo světa

„Při vykonávání této funkce autority, musí církev vzít na sebe také Kristovo utrpení. Neboť to, co - čistě lidsky řečeno - činí Krista důvěryhodným, je jeho utrpení. A je to utrpení, které také činí důvěryhodnou církev. Proto se stává nejdůvěryhodnější tam, kde má mučedníky a následovníky. Tam, kde je její situace pohodlná, ztrácí církev důveryhodnost.“

Zdroj: Proč věřím?

„Eucharistie je víc než večírek, než setkání přátel kněze. Je to sváteční dar od Boha, ve kterém se k nám sám přibližuje. Eucharistie je ve skutečnosti "pokladem" církve, neocenitelným dědictvím, které jí zanechal její Pán. A církev ho střeží s největší péčí, slaví ho každý den ve mši svaté, adoruje ho v kostelech a kaplích, dává ho nemocným a jako viatikum těm, kdo se vydávají na poslední cestu.“

Zdroj: Sůl země

„Obrátit se ke Kristu, věřit v evangelium, znamená v podstatě toto: zbavit se iluze soběstačnosti, abychom si uvědomili a přijali vlastní nedostatek - nedostatek druhých a Boha. Potřebujeme jeho odpuštění a jeho přátelství.“

Zdroj: encyklika Deus caritas est

„Společenství s Kristem je nutně komunikací se všemi, kdo jsou jedno: Já sám se stávám součástí tohoto nového chleba, který On vytváří při proměně veškeré pozemské reality.“

Zdroj: Poselství k postní době 2010

“To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves — these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.”

Zdroj: Církev: poutnické společenství víry

Benedikt XVI.: Citáty anglicky

“Love — caritas — is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace. It is a force that has its origin in God, Eternal Love and Absolute Truth. Each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:32). To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity. Charity, in fact, “rejoices in the truth””

In Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html (30 November 2007) <br class="br">2007

“Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.”

1 Cor 13:6
2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

“Is the conviction that acting unreasonably contradicts God's nature merely a Greek idea, or is it always and intrinsically true? I believe that here we can see the profound harmony between what is Greek in the best sense of the word and the biblical understanding of faith in God. Modifying the first verse of the Book of Genesis, the first verse of the whole Bible, John began the prologue of his Gospel with the words: "In the beginning was the λόγος". This is the very word used by the emperor: God acts, σὺν λόγω, with logos. Logos means both reason and word - a reason which is creative and capable of self-communication, precisely as reason. John thus spoke the final word on the biblical concept of God, and in this word all the often toilsome and tortuous threads of biblical faith find their culmination and synthesis. In the beginning was the logos, and the logos is God, says the Evangelist. The encounter between the Biblical message and Greek thought did not happen by chance.”

2008, Papal Welcome (17 July 2008)

“The obscuring of the difference or duality of the sexes has enormous consequences on a variety of levels. This theory of the human person, intended to promote prospects for equality of women through liberation from biological determinism, has in reality inspired ideologies which, for example, call into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and make homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality.”

2006, Faith, Reason and the University — Memories and Reflections (2006)

“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. … Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and "swept along by every wind of teaching," looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires… The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties. … We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.”

2003

“As the source of our new life in Christ, the Holy Spirit is also, in a very real way, the soul of the Church, the love that binds us to the Lord and to one another, and the light that opens our eyes to see all around us the wonders of God's grace.”

In a Homily of His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Dean of the College of Cardinals http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html, during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals (18 April 2005) <br class="br">2005

“Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space.”

2008, Closing Mass (19 July 2008)

“The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.”

2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

“I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?”

Comments during his first audience with German pilgrims
2005

“In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than 1 percent of priests are guilty of acts of this type. The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information nor to the statistical objectivity of the facts.”

The Public Square, by Richard John Neuhaus, First Things 1996
1990s

“To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God's love. In accepting the power of the Holy Spirit you can also transform your families, communities and nations. Set free the gifts! Let wisdom, courage, awe and reverence be the marks of greatness!”

from "Cardinal Ratzinger Sees a Media Campaign Against Church," Zenit.org, December 3, 2002
2002

“If the Church were to start transforming herself into a directly political subject, … she would do less, not more, for the poor and for justice, because she would lose her independence and her moral authority, identifying herself with a single political path and with debatable partisan positions. The Church is the advocate of justice and of the poor, precisely because she does not identify with politicians nor with partisan interests. Only by remaining independent can she teach the great criteria and inalienable values, guide consciences and offer a life choice that goes beyond the political sphere. To form consciences, to be the advocate of justice and truth, to educate in individual and political virtues: that is the fundamental vocation of the Church in this area. And lay Catholics must be aware of their responsibilities in public life; they must be present in the formation of the necessary consensus and in opposition to injustice.”

2008, Youth Day Vigil (19 July 2008)

“We can be tempted to make the life of faith a matter of mere sentiment, thus blunting its power to inspire a consistent vision of the world and a rigorous dialogue with the many other visions competing for the minds and hearts of our contemporaries.”

in Origins, published by National Catholic News Service, vol. 37, p. 22

“A harmonious relationship between religion and public life is all the more important at a time when some people have come to consider religion a cause of division rather than a force for unity. In a world threatened by sinister and indiscriminate forms of violence, the unified voice of religious people urges nations and communities to resolve conflicts through peaceful means and with full regard for human dignity.”

2008, Mass with the Clergy (18 July 2008)

“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.”

2008, Inter-religious Meeting (17 July 2008)

“We have such difficulty understanding this renunciation today because the relationship to marriage and children has clearly shifted. To have to die without children was once synonymous with a useless life: The echoes of my own life die away, and I am completely dead. If I have children, then I continue to live in them; it's a sort of immortality through posterity. …”

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

“We too must remain faithful to the 'yes' we have given to the Lord's offer of friendship. We know that he will never abandon us. We know that he will always sustain us through the gifts of the Spirit. Mary accepted the Lord's' proposal' in our name. So let us turn to her and ask her to guide us as we struggle to remain faithful to the life-giving relationship God has established with each one of us.”

1990s

“The renunciation of marriage and family is thus to be understood in terms of this vision: I renounce what, humanly speaking, is not only the most normal but also the most important thing. I forgo bringing forth further life on the tree of life, and I live in the faith that my land is really God - and so I make it easier for others, also, to believe that there is a kingdom of heaven. I bear witness to Jesus Christ, to the Gospel, not only with words, but also with this specific mode of existence, and I place my life in this form at his disposal.”

2008, Angelus following the Closing Mass (19 July 2008)

“All through the Gospels, it was those who had taken wrong turns who were particularly loved by Jesus because once they recognized their mistake, they were all the more open to his healing message. It was those who were willing to rebuild their lives who were most ready to listen to Jesus and become his disciples. You can follow in their footsteps; you too can grow particularly close to Jesus because you have chosen to return to him.”

from "Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the end of the Millennium: An interview with Peter Seewald," by Ratzinger, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1997
1990s

“One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use — not abuse — of natural resources”

2008, Disadvantaged Youth (18 July 2008)

“Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”

2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)

“Making my own the concerns of my venerable Predecessors, I consider it opportune to offer appropriate responses so that the entire Church, allowing herself to be regenerated by the power of the Holy Spirit, may present herself to the contemporary world with a missionary impulse in order to promote the new evangelization.”

1980s

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

2010, Ubicumque Et Semper (21 September 2010)

“It is our weakness that calls forth the grace of God. You show your weakness, He gives us strength.”

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)

“All dictatorships take away our freedom to choose. We both know that. Or reveal our own weaknesses.”

Zdroj: Movie The Two Popes, Pope Benedict as Anthony Hopkins

“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.”

Zdroj: Movie The Two Popes, Pope Benedict as Anthony Hopkins