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"It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."
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"Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity."
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"The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced."
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"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."
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"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist."
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"Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?"
Peace
"I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people."
Faith
"After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war."
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"If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable."
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"It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope."
Christian
"Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic."
Leadership
"A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget."
Education
"In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa."
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"Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom."
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"I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient."
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