Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.

Scrutamini scripturas [Latin for “Let us look at the scriptures.”). These two words have undone the world.

The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn this righteousness of the kingdom of God: it is a grace that is given.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

My entire goal in life is to try and change the world.

I've always wanted to be a rebel. I've never wanted to do what everybody else is doing. Man, I've got news for you, that is what I am really doing now, and it's the coolest thing ever. I got to know the person of Christ. I see him as one of the greatest rebels of all time. That's what really appeals to me. It's hope. It's victory.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.

Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

Your requests change history because your prayers change God!

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What can be done by your feeble arms!? ANSWER ME! He can take down the iron curtain in a day, He CAN convert a nation in an hour. Call upon Him, believe Him.

The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now. We can and should pray for America as a whole, but remember that when God sets out to change a nation, He begins by changing people. It starts with individuals.

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.