“There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Man’s unique grandeur is ultimately based on his capacity to know the truth. And human beings desire to know the truth. Yet truth can only be attained in freedom.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Locating resources, financing, production, consumption, and all the other phases in the economic cycle inevitably have moral implications. Thus every economic decision has a moral consequence.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Charity is at the heart of the Church’s social doctrine.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“As we witness the cruelties of a capitalism that degrades man to the level of merchandise…we have gained a new appreciation of what Jesus meant when he warned of riches, of the man-destroying divinity Mammon, which grips large parts of the world in a cruel stranglehold.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“The happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy, has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“No one can claim, as Cain did, that he is not responsible for the fate of his brother.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“This is his [the theologian’s] mission: in the loquacity of our day and of other times, in the plethora of words, to make the essential words heard. Through words, it means making present the Word, the Word who comes from God, the Word who is God.” – Pope Benedict XVI

“Where God is made great, men and women are not made small: there too men and women become great and the world is filled with light.” – Pope Benedict XVI