Top 100 Quotes About Pope Francis
#1. A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.
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#2. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.
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#3. The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.
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#4. While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial right of every human being. The ultimate aim of medicine remains the defence and promotion of life.
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#5. Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.
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#6. The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of arrival, which is God, in that transcendent fullness where the risen Christ embraces and illumines all things.
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#7. Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.
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#8. How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work ... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.
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#9. Pius XII, more than half a century ago, said that the tragedy of our age was that it had lost its sense of sin, the awareness of sin. Today we add further to the tragedy by considering our illness, our sins, to be incurable, things that cannot be healed or forgiven. We
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#10. Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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#11. Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.
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#12. Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.
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#13. Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.
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#14. Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.
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#15. Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.
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#16. Peace is a daily commitment. It is a homemade peace.
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#18. He looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children. Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor. He warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today.
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#19. Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
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#20. A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian
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#21. Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.
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#22. Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.
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#23. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
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#24. The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.
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#25. Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.
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#26. This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
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#27. It makes me really proud to be an Argentinean, to have the pope be Argentinian. Pope Francis has been incredible. My mother used to know him when he was in Argentina.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
#28. Worldliness, which is a homicidal attitude. Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the person! It kills the Church! PART NINE
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#29. The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel.
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#30. To be faithful, to be creative, we need to be able to change. To change! And why must I change? So that I can adapt to the situations in which I must proclaim the Gospel. To stay close to God, we need to know how to set out; we must not be afraid to set out.
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#31. God's faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.
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#32. In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him ... Should the same not happen in society?
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#33. This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.
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#34. How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?
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#36. Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.
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#37. He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.
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#38. Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!
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#39. The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds.
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#40. If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.
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#41. We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.
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#42. The key that opens the door to the faith is prayer.
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#43. Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.
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#44. It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.
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#45. 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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#46. Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just
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#47. The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.
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#48. To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.
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#49. Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.
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#50. Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
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#51. Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.
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#52. May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.
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#53. There is a Marian "style" to the Church's work of evangelization.
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#54. Jesus is the Good Shepherd; he is our true treasure. Please, let us not erase Jesus from our lives! Let us ground our hearts ever more in him (see Luke
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#56. The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration.
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#57. Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.
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#58. Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that god has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!
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#59. May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.
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#60. 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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#61. How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!
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#62. I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.
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#63. Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.
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#64. Christians cannot be pessimists! They do not look like someone in constant mourning. If we are truly in love with Christ and if we sense how much he loves us, our hearts will "light up" with a joy that spreads to everyone around us.
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#65. God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
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#66. Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.
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#67. Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation
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#68. All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.
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#69. [Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.
Rick Santorum
#70. Spreading the Gospel means that we are the first to proclaim and live the reconciliation, forgiveness, peace, unity, and love that the Holy Spirit gives us.
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#71. We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.
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#72. The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.
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#73. The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
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#74. 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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#75. I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.
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#76. Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.
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#77. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.
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#78. The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.
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#79. Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.
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#80. It is striking that even some who clearly have solid doctrinal and spiritual convictions frequently fall into a lifestyle which leads to an attachment to financial security, or to a desire for power or human glory at all cost, rather than giving their lives to others in mission.
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#81. 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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#82. The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.
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#83. We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.
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#84. We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need, communicating not only to grieve or tell others about your own problems. Listen in order to intercede and help out.
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#85. This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil ... But the devil exists and we must fight against him.
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#86. I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'
Patti Smith
#87. I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.
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#88. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others.
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#89. I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!
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#90. I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!
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#91. We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.
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#92. We are all called to be friends with Jesus. Don't be afraid to love the Lord.
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#93. Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more
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#94. Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.
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#95. Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!
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#96. We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.
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#97. The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.
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#98. You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.
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#99. The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.
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#100. Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.
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