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Pope Francis Quotes - Page 13

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Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

Love, Christmas, Christian

Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.

Sri Lanka, Philippines, Praying

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

Prayer, Understanding, May

Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

If we act like children of God, knowing that he loves us, our lives will be made new, filled with serenity and joy.

Children, Knowing, Joy

How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.

Exercise, Doe, Roles

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

God, Faith, Christian

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

Giving, Selfishness, Plans

There are no part-time Christians.

Christian, Religious, Catholic

A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.

God, Christian, Religious

Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.

Hurt, Impact, People

Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.33, BookBaby

The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation.

Powerful, Reality, Effort

"Pope Francis's meeting with Kim Davis should come as no surprise". www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2015.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

Sympathy, Christian, Religious

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

Fall, House Of Cards, Balance

Interview with Antonio Spadaro, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2013.

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

Creativity, Joy, Church

" Pope Francis's final mass in Brazil 'attended by 3m" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.

We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.

May, Poor, States

Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.18, BookBaby

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

Christian, Tea, Needs

"Pope Francis Insists Church Must Help Poor, Not ‘Speak Of Theology’" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Suffering, Overcoming, Charity

Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 20, 2014.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

Church, Want, Might

In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty!

Needs, Normal, Helping

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?

Eye, Men, Hands

I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.

Country, Selfish, Thinking

I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.

Mean, Caring, Giving

Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

Children, Elderly, Unborn Child

"Pope Francis, one year later -- calling us to a deeper faith" By Maureen M. Ferguson, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Art, Church

Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to destroy it. Families are the domestic church where Jesus grows in the love of a married couple, in the lives of their children.

Jesus, Children, Couple

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