Pope Francis Quotes

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Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.

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People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society.

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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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Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.

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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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When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

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

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Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

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We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

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Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

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Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

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Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

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Let us open the doors to the Spirit, let ourselves be guided by him, and allow God's constant help to make us new men and women, inspired by the love of God which the Holy Spirit bestows on us! How beautiful it would be if each of you, every evening, could say: Today at school, at home, at work, guided by God, I showed a sign of love towards one of my friends, my parents, an older person! How beautiful!

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The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?

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There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

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Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

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Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures,
even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that,
when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.

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All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.

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This task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.

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The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.

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We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

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The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take account of ethics and solidarity. And why should they not turn to God to draw inspiration from his designs? In this way, a new political and economic mindset would arise that would help to transform the absolute dichotomy between the economic and social spheres into a healthy symbiosis.

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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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There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: I am with you until the end of the world.

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The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation... to see, to feel, to understand the beauty of what lies ahead, of the homeland towards which we walk.

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We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus.

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In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

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"God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life.

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Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

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The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.

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