Truth and Tolerance Quotes

“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.”
― Pope Benedict-XVI, Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions

“It was Romano Guardini, above all, who indicated an important aspect of this basic pattern of Christian—indeed, biblical—faith, which does not well up from within us but comes to us from outside: Christianity, the Christian faith, he tells us, is not the product of our own experiences; rather, it is an event that comes to us from without.2 Faith is based on our meeting something (or someone) for which our capacity for experiencing things is inadequate.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions

“To sum up, we may say that, according to its own understanding of itself, Christianity stands at one and the same time in both a positive and a negative relation to the religions of the world: it recognizes itself as being linked with them in the unity of the concept of a covenant relationship and lives out of the conviction that the cosmos and its myth, just like history and its mystery, speak of God and can lead men to God; but it is equally aware of a decided No to other religions and sees in them a means by which man seeks to shield himself from God instead of leaving himself open to his demands.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions