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Pope Francis Quotes - Page 43

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Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.

Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.

Heart, Evil, Choices

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

Pride, Vanity, Arrogance

"Pope Francis follows in namesake's footsteps and tells Church to focus on the poor" by Steve Doohan, www.mirror.co.uk. October 5, 2013.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Dignity

"Pope condemns idolatry of cash in capitalism" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2013.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Hands, Giving, Church

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Spiritual, Soul, Church

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, News, Scandal

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

... the Christian is a person who remembers: ... He continually says to the Lord: 'Yes, I want the commandments, I want your will, I will follow you'. He is a man of the covenant, and we celebrate the covenant, every day " in the Mass: thus a Christian is "a woman, a man of the Eucharist".

Christian, Men, Want

I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses it elicited. Catholics and Lutherans can ask forgiveness for the harm they have caused one another and for their offenses committed in the sight of God. Together we can rejoice in the longing for unity which the Lord has awakened in our hearts, and which makes us look with hope to the future.

Believe, Heart, Reality

Oh Mary, star of the sea, once again we recourse to thee, to find refuge and sernity, to implore your protection and help. Mother of God and our Mother, turn your sweet gaze towards those who face the dangers of the sea everyday to guarantee their families the necessary sustenance for life, to protect the respect of creation, to serve peace between peoples.

Mother, Sweet, Stars

In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting God, ... But the converse is also true: it is not possible to establish true links with God while ignoring other people. Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam.

Thinking, Bridges, People

I then greet and cordially thank you all, dear friends belonging to other religious traditions; first of all the Muslims, who worship the one God, living and merciful, and call upon Him in prayer, and all of you. I really appreciate your presence: in it I see a tangible sign of the will to grow in mutual esteem and cooperation for the common good of humanity.

Religious, Prayer, Appreciate

"Pope’s Address to Representatives of the Churches, Ecclesial Communities and Other Religions". zenit.org. March 20, 2013.

What has the Cross left in each of us? You see, it gives us a treasure that no one else can give: the certainty of the faithful love which God has for us. A love so great that it enters into our sin and forgives it, enters into our suffering and gives us the strength to bear it. It is a love which enters into death to conquer it and save us.

Giving, Faithful, Suffering

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Impatient, Anxious, Whole

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.

Spiritual, Sick, Church

"Pope Francis on gay marriage, unmarried mothers ... and journalists". www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Might, Flight, Joyful

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Mother, Children, Hypocrite

"Pope Francis known for simplicity, humility". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. March 13, 2013.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Strong, Weak, Liberalism

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

Agree, Collaborators

"Pope Francis signals openness towards gay priests" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2013.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Leader, Church, Leprosy

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.

Mean, Feet, Helping

"Trump’s Spitwads or Francis’ Generosity — Which Will Americans Choose?" by Barbara Falconer Newhall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2015.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Thinking, Giving, World

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.

Selfish, Taken, Men

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.

Idols, Lord, Stripping

Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.35, Loyola Press

If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?... No one should marginalize these people for this, they must be integrated into society.

Gay, People, Judging

Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Rio De Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 22, 2013.

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.

Spiritual, Reading, People

Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.22, A&C Black

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