Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

I'm a religious man. I believe in God.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

We should worship as though the deity were present.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

When I was young, I was religious.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

I was always a God guy.

I listen and talk to God daily.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

I love Jesus.

I'm just someone who marvels at God.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.