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"50 Pope Francis Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 17 December 1936 | Clergyman |

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Share Interact Become Body
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Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Better Better Place Choose Each
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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Corner Every Find God
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The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

Creation Doing Doing Good Good
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Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Another Another Way Culture Enjoy
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Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Activity Common Common Good Dedication
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I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Been Between Catholics Collaboration
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Beautiful Behind Discover Example
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We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Avoid Becomes Church Grows
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A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Any Attention Before Church
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Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
Creation Good Now Relation
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Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Belong Blessing Bottom Catholic
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In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

America Atmosphere Create Dependency
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Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Also Created God He
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Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

Attracted Convenience Expediency Just
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We all have the duty to do good.
Duty Good We All
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The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

Atheists Blood Catholics Christ
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To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Blasphemy God Name Say
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Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Spiteful Those Vindictive Who
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Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

Above Among Another Day
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Money has to serve, not to rule.
Money Rule Serve Has
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The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Any Cult Dictatorship Economy
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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.

Alike Christ Duty Everyone
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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Church Doors Faith Had
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You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Another Cannot Destroy Life
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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Beauty Brilliance Girl Her
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If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

Catholicism Celibacy Cultural I Think
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The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

About Defects Health Little
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More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Competitiveness Consequence Consumer Imposed
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Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Ends People Up Work
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
Go Journey Life Life Is A
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Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Attitude Church Committed Could
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He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Devil He Lord Pray
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If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Banks Die Eat Fall
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Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

Children Easy Food Grave
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We just cannot worry about ourselves.
About Cannot Just Ourselves
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Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

Cannot Gospel Jesus Let Us
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Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

Between Church Credibility Faithful
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Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Alone Before Believing Convinced
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Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Centre Choosing Even Hidden
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We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

Always Light Live Lord
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When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Bishops Build Cardinals Christ
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Bit Cold Just Less
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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Along Attitude Benefit Change
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Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Adapt Also Am Best
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I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

About Because Chose Community
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My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Arises Aspects Car Choices
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I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Always Am Assess Decision
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I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Accurate Am Definition Figure
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A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Always Another Approved Asked
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Pope Francis Quotes & Sayings