“Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.” - Pope Benedict XVI #marchforlife2020

“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” - Pope Benedict XVI

Happy 93rd birthday, Pope Benedict XVI! #PopeBenedictXVI google.com/amp/s/aleteia.…

"An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties." - Pope Benedict XVI

-Peter Seewald’s 4 booklength interviews -Tracey Rowland’s Ratzinger’s Faith -Emery de Gaal’s Christocentric Shift -Jesus of Nazareth trilogy -Spirit of the Liturgy. -September addresses (Regensburg, Paris, London & Berlin) -Dictatorship of Relativism homily #PBXVIreads

It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.  – G.K. Chesterton Happy Birthday Pope Benedict XVI! #pbxvi todworner.com/pope-benedict-…

Intellectuals are blind when it comes to their intellectual constructs. For this reason they could forswear every realism and continued fight for a system incapable of honoring its promises. —Pope Benedict XVI, “Truth & Freedom”

God is always faithful to his promises, but he often surprises us in the way he fulfills them. —Pope Benedict XVI

We suffer on account of God’s patience. And yet, we need his patience. God, who became a lamb, tells us that the world is saved by the Crucified One, not by those who crucified him. The world is redeemed by the patience of God. It is destroyed by the impatience of man. —PBXVI

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. —Pope Benedict XVI

It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.  – G.K. Chesterton Pope Benedict XVI, Requiescat in Pace #PopeBenedictXVI todworner.com/pope-benedict-…

Pope Benedict XVI, Requiescat in Pace.

[Jesus] knows me by name. I am not just some nameless being in the infinity of the universe. He knows me personally. Do I know him? —Pope Benedict XVI

Explore the vast spiritual & intellectual genius of Pope Benedict XVI. It will change your life. #popebenedictxvi

The denial of the ethical principle, the denial of a capacity for insight that is antecedent to every specialization — that capacity of insight which we call “conscience” — is a denial of man. —Pope Benedict XVI

Gratitude. Contrition. Hope. Worth the read. vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit…

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The person who abandons himself totally in God's hands does not become God's puppet, a boring “yes man”; he does not lose his freedom. Only the person who entrusts himself totally to God finds true freedom, the great, creative immensity of the freedom of good. —Pope Benedict XVI

“One who has hope lives differently” —Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI: The theme for our Summer issue of Evangelization & Culture, the Journal of the Word on Fire Institute. Get yours at wordonfire.institute/journal Word on Fire