Pope Francis Poor Quotes

#1. Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

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#2. Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society's most neglected members.

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#3. Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

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#4. None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

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#5. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

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#6. Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.

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#7. Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

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#8. Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.

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#9. Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

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#10. The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

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#11. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. God's voice is no longer heard; the quiet joy of his love is no longer felt, and the desire to do good fades.

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#12. This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly ... a tragedy ... what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!

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#13. We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

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#14. If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.

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#15. Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

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#16. The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

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#17. Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

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#18. As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor ; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

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#19. Jesus teaches us to put the needs of the poor ahead of our own, our needs, even if legitimate, will never be so urgent as those of the poor, who lack the necessities of life,

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#20. Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

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#21. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She said: We must be very proud of our vocation because it gives us the opportunity to serve Christ in the poor.

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#22. We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

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#23. REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

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#24. If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

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#25. My people are poor and I am one of them

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#26. Be close tot he poor, the needy, to touch in their flesh the flesh of Jesus. Be close, please

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#27. The growth of equality ... calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor, which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality.

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#28. Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met ... I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

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#29. Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

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#30. We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.

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#31. Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded'.

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#32. The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

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#33. This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.

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#34. The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.

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#35. Poverty calls us to sow hope ... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

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#36. Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

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#37. Not to share one's goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

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#38. Wasting food is like stealing from the poor.

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#39. Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

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#40. I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

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#41. Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

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#42. You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.

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#43. We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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#44. In the poor and outcast we see Christ's face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

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#45. If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

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#46. Besides, we know that approximately a third of all food produced is discarded, and "whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor".[29]

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#47. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

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#48. The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

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#49. Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is of no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, the poor, the sick, in children.

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#50. Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down,

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#51. Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as President, you won't see another black president for generations! I think he has set a very low bar and I think it's a shame for the African-American people.

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#52. I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.

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#53. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

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