Ratzinger's Quotes

#1. 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

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

Oriana Fallaci

#3. They were bad boys with good hearts. That's exactly what Jake still is.

Samantha Towle

#4. Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.

Reed Hastings

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

Pope Benedict XVI

#6. 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

#7. The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday and take back to school again signed by one of our parents. The reason I did so was that M happened to be out at the time and I thought I could save myself trouble.

Daphne Du Maurier

#8. Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.

Pau Gasol

#9. Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

Jean De La Fontaine

#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