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Pope Francis
Pope Francis
Argentinian Clergyman
Born: Dec 17, 1936
Church God Good Me People You
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God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. Pope Francis
Christmas God Gift Ability Someone Gives Never He Because Understand Capable Us Receive Receiving
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. Pope Francis
Terrorism Rights Unfair Human Rights Only Structures Economic Also Inequalities Huge Human Repression Creates Assassination Violated
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. Pope Francis
Today Death War Destruction Pain Our Ourselves Weapons Brother Only Lead Sharpened Ideas Fallen Were Continue Normal Hand Sow Against Justify Asleep Even Conscience Raise Violence
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good. Pope Francis
Love Service Government Best Good You Man Woman Humble People Better Path Will Every Everybody Those Must Diverse Take Opinions Am Governance Questions Up Listen Order Them Themselves Ask Your Choose Who Serve Every Man Two
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace. Pope Francis
Love Hope Future Peace People Old Preach Young Must Restore Open Excluded Spread Young People Poor Help Include Among Need
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil. Pope Francis
Life Abortion Crime Evil Mafia Absolute Taking Another Does Lesser Save
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God. Pope Francis
Life God Good You Trust Space Thorns Seed Weeds Although Always Person Which Land Full Grow
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel. Pope Francis
Walls Building Christian About Only Gospel Person May Wherever Who Bridges Thinks
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place. Pope Francis
Good Fight Good And Evil People World Vision Better Evil Own Think Enough Everyone Must Would Would-Be Follow Better Place He Idea Towards Make His Encourage Move Place Them Us Choose Each
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. Pope Francis
Work Music Time Together Culture People Relax Enjoy Way Must Take Put Sport Read Another Another Way Families Listen Leisure Themselves Who Gratification Play
Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason. Pope Francis
Knowledge Grace Light Our Part Souls Nor Reason Amount Consciousness
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. Pope Francis
God Great Religion You Humble People Be Humble Doubt Our Must Great Leaders Proof Prophet He Leaders Moses Like Him Himself Always Lord Answers Leave False Left Questions Room Means Certainties Using
I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. Pope Francis
Teacher God Light Christ Father Believe ABBA Catholic His Pastor Being Incarnation Creator Jesus Jesus Christ
A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person. Pope Francis
Love God Me Gay Consider Once Approved Tell Must He Looks Another Does Always Condemn Existence Question Provocative Replied Person Endorse Asked Manner Reject Homosexuality
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
Beautiful Truth You Reality Example Hiding Inside Vanity Gives Misery Self-Absorbed Look Discover Huge Front Often Behind Them Use Whoever Illustrate Peacock
This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good. Pope Francis
Good Together People World Circle Important Lead Roads Towards Come Ideas Know Important Thing Expand Get Closer Listen Move Apart Thing
From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. Pope Francis
God Darkness Light Dissolve Point Point Of View Divine Within Does Spark Us View Even Each Illuminates
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord. Pope Francis
Walk Christ Build Worldly Bishops Cross Priests Disciples Without Lord May Proclaim Cardinals
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. Pope Francis
World Poverty Become Think Everyone Resources Scandal About Give Days How Lot Little Poorer Riches Many
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. Pope Francis
Love Truth God Faith Relationship Truth Is Christ Christian According Us Therefore Christian Faith Jesus Jesus Christ
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. Pope Francis
Try Church Doors Those Finds Able Indifferent Outside Open Step Attend Instead Roads Mass New Welcomes Also Go Itself Quit The Doors Just Being Us Who Let Us Keeping Receives
Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world. Pope Francis
God World Word Every Corner Ways Find New Spread New Ways
We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself. Pope Francis
Work Love Good World Will Men Own Live Society Increased Increases Others Ensure Possibly Must Oneself More Observed Until Equal His Selfishness Than Expertise Which Each Strengths
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. Pope Francis
You Battle Seriously Church Field Else Everything Everything Else High High Cholesterol Wounds See About Hospital He Talk Heal His Blood Person After Ask Then Cholesterol Useless Injured Level
If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society. Pope Francis
Good Gay People Judge Will Society Must Someone He Lord Am Integrated Who Who Am I Searches
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person. Pope Francis
Life You Power Destroy Another Person Cannot Position
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