Pope Francis - Poor Quotes

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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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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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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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The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. 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.

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Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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