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Pope Francis Quotes - Page 7

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I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

People, Encounters, Culture

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Doors, Thought Provoking, Church

Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.55, A&C Black

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

Justice, Water, Agents

Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.11

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.

Jesus, Loneliness, Heart

Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.

Pro Life, Humanity, Guarantees

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Blood, Church, Battle

Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.54, A&C Black

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Jesus, Way, Facts

"The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.

Husband, Men, Wife

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

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Desire, Overcoming, May

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

Prayer, Fruit, Bears

You can't have Christ without the Church.

Church, Christ

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

Stories, Salvation, Offers

Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.19, SPCK

If we are truly in love with Christ and if we sense how much he loves us, our heart will 'light up' with a joy that spreads to everyone around us.

Heart, Light, Joy

Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.88, SPCK

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.

Sports, Play, People

"Pope Francis Has a Few Words in Support of Leisure". www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2013.

No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

Sleep, Fasting, Ashes

If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society. The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers.

Brother, Gay, Judging

“Pope Francis on homosexuality: Who am I to judge gay people?” by Ben Rossington, www.mirror.co.uk. July 29, 2013.

Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

Letting Go, Adventure, Mean

Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.98, A&C Black

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

Offers, Asks

Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.8, BookBaby

Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to cut others down.' Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.

Letting Go, Self Esteem, Mean

"Pope Francis vs. the status quo: 13 key moments in his papacy" by Diana D'Abruzzo, www.politico.com. September 22, 2015.

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

Voice, Giving, Tasks

Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.

Mean, Rushing, Order

Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.

Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

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.

Faithful, Church, Life Is

"Pope Francis to priests: Practice what you preach". www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2013.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

Religious, Killing, Pretext

"Pope Francis says fundamentalist terrorism result of 'deviant forms of religion" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2015.

The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

Christian, And Love, Violence

"Pope Francis: ‘Faith And Violence Are Incompatible", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2013.

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