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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

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.

Pope Francis
Life, Success, Beautiful
"'Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church'". Vatican Insider Interview, www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.

Pope Francis
Life, Important, Action
"Pope Francis Urges Young People Not To Waste Time on Internet". www.nbcnews.com. August 6, 2014.

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

Pope Francis
Life, Real, Men
"Pope Francis Rails Against ‘Throwaway Culture’ Of Globalization" by James MacKenzie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2015.

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.

Pope Francis
Life, Faith, God
"Pope Francis Celebrates Easter Sunday", abcnews.go.com.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

Pope Francis
Love, Life, Men
"Pope: 'Love between a man and a woman ... is not made in a day'" by Richard Greene and Don Melvin, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2015.

Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.

Pope Francis
Life, Female, Body
"Pope Condemns Female Genital Mutilation, Domestic Violence Against Women" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2015.

Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.

Pope Francis
Life, Strength, Pain

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

Pope Francis
Life, Technology, Surrender
Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.153

You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.

Pope Francis
Life, Men, Asking

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