Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 16, 2018, Benedict’s 91st birthday.
Over his sixty-some years of active academic and pastoral work, Joseph Ratzinger wrote and said a vast amount, give us rich reflections on what God has done in Christ. Some of Benedict’s writings before he became pope can be found here, and all his writings as pope can be found here. Here are quotes on evangelism. See also 97 Aphorisms Adduced from the Thought of Benedict XVI put together by a Notre Dame professor. He makes Benedict a little sharper and wittier than he is on his own.
He’s not, I’ll admit, the kind of thinker who makes up great short quotes. He’s not G. K. Chesterton or C. S. Lewis. Short quotes can’t really convey his thinking, because he would often work out a matter in great and subtle detail. But here are a few (just a tiny percentage) of his insights.
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