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Pope Benedict XVI Quotes: Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.
         

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.


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If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

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We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

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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.



Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.



We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.





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