Pope Francis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.”
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“I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.”
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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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“The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.”
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“You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.”
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“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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“The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.”
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“God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.”
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“This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.”
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“There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.”
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“Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.”
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“I'm the type of human who is interested most in the truth. God gave me a healthy love for the truth.”
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“The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!”
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“In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly”
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“How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.”
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“To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.”
-- Pope FrancisSource : Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. October 18, 2014.
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“God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life.”
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“There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.”
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“God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.”
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“Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?”
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“In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness”
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“I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Cross of the Lord: to build the Church on the Blood of the Lord, which is shed on the Cross, and to profess the one glory, Christ Crucified. In this way, the Church will go forward.”
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“As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.”
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“I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.”
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“In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.”
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“We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness”
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“To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.”
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“If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.”
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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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“Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!”
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