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Faith teaches us that we are God’s creatures, made in his image and likeness, endowed with an inviolable dignity, and called to eternal life. Wherever man is diminished, the world around us is also diminished; it loses its ultimate meaning and strays from its goal. What emerges is a culture, not of life, but of death. How could this be considered progress”? It is a backward step, a form of regression which ultimately dries up the very sources of life for individuals and all of society.
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Homily
Eucharistic Celebration
with Bishops, Seminarians, Novices
Saint Mary's Cathedral
Sydney, Australia
19 July 2008
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Faith draws the future into the present, so that it is no longer simply a “not yet”. The fact that this future exists changes the present; the present is touched by the future reality, and thus the things of the future spill over into those of the present and those of the present into those of the future.
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Encyclical Letter
'Spe Salvi'
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Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent: it gives us something. It gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a “proof” of the things that are still unseen.
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Encyclical Letter
'Spe Salvi'
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The resurrection of Christ assures us that no adverse power will ever be able to destroy the Church. Therefore our faith is well-founded, but this faith needs to come alive in each one of us. A vast effort at every level is required if every Christian is to be transformed into a witness capable of rendering account to all and at all times of the hope that inspires him (cf. 1 Pet 3:15).
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Homily
Terreiro do Paço
Lisbon, Portugal
11 May 2010
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No small number of people today ... are afraid that the faith may limit their lives, that they may be constrained in the web of the Church’s commandments and teachings, and that they will no longer be free to move in the ‘broad space’ of modern life and thought. However, only when our lives have reached the heart of God will they have found that ‘broad space’ for which we were created. A life without God does not become freer and broader. Human beings are destined for the infinite. The heart that has opened itself to God becomes generous and broad in its turn.
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Address to participants
'Deutscher Katholikentag'
22 May 2008
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If faith is alive, Christian culture will never be outdated, but rather will remain alive and current. And if faith is alive, we can respond to the imperative that is always repeated in the psalms:
"Sing a new song unto the Lord."
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General Audience
St. Peter's Square
21 May 2008
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At the heart of all temptations is the act of pushing God aside because we see him as secondary, if not actually superfluous and annoying, in comparison with all the apparently far more urgent matters that fill our lives ... God is the issue: Is he real, reality itself, or isn't he? Is he good or do we have to invent the good ourselves?
The God question is the fundamental question, and it sets us right down at the crossroads of human existence.
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From the Chapter on
The Temptations of Christ,
'Jesus of Nazareth'
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Faith is a spiritual force that purifies reason in the search for a just [social] order, freeing it from the ever-present risk of being 'blinded' by egoism, by interest and by power.
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Audience
Pontifical Council
'Cor Unum'
13 November 2009
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