Pope Francis Quotes

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The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

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Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

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An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

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Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

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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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The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

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The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

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It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

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We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

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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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The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.

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Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.

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When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

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Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

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I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

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The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.

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If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

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I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

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A simple lifestyle is good for us, helping us to better share with those in need.

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Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!

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