God alone suffices. Exchange not reality for illusion, beauty for a forgery, or self-gratification and fleeting pleasure for perfect and lasting happiness, but gaze into history, find and embrace the sublime wonders of the plan of God, and forever sate the irrepressible thirst of your heart
The Supreme Treasure: Truth in the Divine Plan of God
The human intellect is created primarily to seek, know and embrace the truth about God, since it is only in doing so that we can achieve real and lasting fulfillment. Coming to know the truth and falling deeply in love with it, is integral to the divine plan of God.
In Love With the Beloved and In Adoration of His Blood
When we think about it, what could God have done that is more perfect, meaningful, revealing, astonishing, moving, life-changing and all the rest, than to become man, assume our human nature and all that we are (with the exception of sin), and shed his blood in order to put our sins to death and gift us with new, everlasting life?
The Election of The 265th successor of St. Peter: Sign of Continuity, Unity, Solidity and Permanence
Whole civilizations have appeared and vanished, wars have begun and ended, but the Church remains, moving ahead along a timeline that stretches not simply into the future but into an eternity filled with the indescribable glory of unending, blessed communion with God. That the election of a pope is nothing new is clear. Nevertheless, it is interesting how an important event in the life of the Church, such as the election of Pope Francis, commands the world’s attention—albeit temporarily.
Pope Benedict XVI: Faithful Man of God and The Church
There is little that more plainly uncovers a failure to see the Holy Father for who he is, to understand him and to grasp the magnitude and importance of the position to which he as been called by God, than hearing what people have to say about his plans to resign from the papacy, scheduled to take effect on the 28th of February.