Pope Francis Quotes - Page 40

• 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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  Blood, Silence, Suffering

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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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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  Children, Generosity, Suffering

  Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.51, Orbis Books

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• God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

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  Effort, Small Efforts, God Love

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• In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!

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  Risk, Charity, Indifferent

  Pope Francis' Holy Mass With The New Cardinals, w2.vatican.va. February 15, 2015.

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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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  Home, Critical Moments, Care

  Address at the White House, delivered 23 September 2015, South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

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  Roots, Creation, Possibility

  "Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2013.

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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.

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  Thinking, Issues, Celibacy

  "Pope Francis Talks Celibacy, Pedophilia In 2012 Interview". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2013.

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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.

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  Religious, People, Littles

  "Pope Francis Against Rome" by Alexander Stille, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

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  Past, Views, Long

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.99, A&C Black

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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.

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  Girl, Uncles, Intellectual

  "In 2012 interview, Pope Francis (then-Cardinal Bergoglio) reveals secret of celibacy". Interview with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, aleteia.org. March 18, 2013.

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• You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

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  Christian, Sweet, Jesus

  "Casual, chatty pope puts Vatican on alert with off-the-cuff homilies, interviews, one-liners" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.

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  Memories, Light, Goal

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• Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash.

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  Light, Flash

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• During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and to talk to you. I want to express the love and the hopes of the Church for you. And I want to encourage you as Christian citizens of this country to offer yourselves passionately and honestly to the great work of renewing your society and helping to build a better world.

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  Christian, Country, People

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• There's only a very small representation of girls among you. Too little. Women have much to tell us in today’s society. Sometimes we are too machistas and we don't allow enough space to women. But women can see things from a different angle to us, with a different eye. Women are able to pose questions we men are unable to understand. Look out for this fact: she is the only one who has put a question for which there is no answer. She couldn't put it into words but expressed it with tears.

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  Girl, Eye, Men

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• How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!

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  Dream, Girlfriend, Husband

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• For this the Gospel offers us a serene way forward: using the three languages of the mind, heart and hands - and to use them in harmony. What you think, you must feel and put into effect. Your information comes down to your heart and you put it into practice. Harmoniously. What you think, you feel, and you do. Feel what you think and feel what you do. Do what you think and what you feel. The three languagesTo think. To feel. To do. And all in harmony.

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  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• The Koran is a book of peace, it is a prophetic book of peace.

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  Book, Prophetic

  "Pope says it is wrong to equate Islam with violence" by Philip Pullella, uk.reuters.com. November 30, 2014.

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• You just can’t say that, just as you can’t say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups.

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  Christian, Groups, Littles

  "Pope says it is wrong to equate Islam with violence" by Philip Pullella, uk.reuters.com. November 30, 2014.

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• Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

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  Office, Everyday, Lines

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• There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

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  Men, Rights, Dignity Of Work

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

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  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

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• The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

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  Nature, Couple, Church

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

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  Nature, Humanity, Our Relationship

  Pope Francis (2015). “Praise be to You - Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home”, p.47, Ignatius Press

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• We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

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  Mother, Nature, Men

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