Ratzinger Quotes

#1. I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

Oriana Fallaci

#2. I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

Laurence Olivier

#3. Storm. I shall call her Storm.

John Gwynne

#4. They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

Van Morrison

#6. Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.

Lisa Genova

#8. I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.

Iris Apfel

#9. I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Christopher Hitchens

#10. In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

Carl Bernstein

#11. The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

David Novak

#12. Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

Robert Barron

#13. Faith also requires "purification" in Ratzinger's thought. For Ratzinger, reason allows faith to discern what is superstitious from what is true and what inconsistent with truth from what is a genuine expansion of knowledge.

John Lynch