Pope Francis Quotes

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The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity.., networks of solidarity which can expand to embrace and transform society by their prophetic witness.

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The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

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It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present.

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How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

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

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To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

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Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.

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The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

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Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.

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The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

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The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

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Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.

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Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.

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My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it.

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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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The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

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It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.

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We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

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God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

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Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

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The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

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We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.

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Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood. In the face of this shameful and culpable silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade.

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We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God's offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God, we are not numbers, we are important, indeed we are the most important thing to him; even if we are sinners, we are what is closest to his heart.

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God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.

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

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To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

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The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the sin of mankind, including our own. Jesus accepts all this with open arms, bearing on His shoulders our crosses and saying to us: 'Have courage! You do not carry your cross alone! I carry it with you. I have overcome death and I have come to give you hope, to give you life' (John 3:16).

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A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.

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God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.

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