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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 such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Church Risk Streets Happenings Ordinary Sick Accidents Going Out Wounded Ordinary Man

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

People Ifs Men Two Government Order Asks Opinion Path Humble Be Good Every Man Diverse Governance Good Governance

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

People Ifs Mean Left Answers Rooms Leader Lord Doubt Humble Proof Certainty Prophet Great Leader Moses Be Humble False Prophets

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.”

Ifs Trying Humans Persons Has Beens Drug Vices Disaster Destroyed Certainty Human Life Dogmatic Certainty In Life

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“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.”

Ifs Doe Light Views Darkness Divine Point Of View Sparks Divine Light

Author:Pope Francis

“I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Made Waiting Decision Thought Provoking Wrong Things Decisions Made

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“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.”

People Ifs Lord Judging Gay Good Will Integrated

Author:Pope Francis

“Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given the premise, and this is fundamental, that the mercy of God is limitless for those who turn to him with a sincere and contrite heart, the issue for the unbeliever lies in obeying his or her conscience.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.”

Ifs Persons Stills Mets Areas All Things Certainty Uncertainty Touched Quests Margins

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don’t know how to resolve this … I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart.”

Ifs Feels Should Heart Stills Spirituality Term My Heart Should Have Superiors Pope Vow Jesuit

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Ifs Ideas War Hands Today Pain Violence Brother Normal Weapons Conscience Destruction Raises Fallen Justify Violence And War Pain Death

Book:Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

“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.”

Ifs Persons Asks Church Levels Blood Fields Battle Wounds Heal Useless Hospitals Sugar Injured Cholesterol Blood Sugar High Cholesterol

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.”

People Ifs Suffering Dies Fall Poor Tragedy Investment Hunger Poor Health

Author:Pope Francis

“If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.”

Ifs Want Helping Christian Past Memories Clear Safe Areas Tradition Past Memories

Author:Pope Francis

“If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.”

Ifs Thinking Reason Issues Universal Western Catholicism Reviews Celibacy

Author:Pope Francis

“Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace. But there is no true peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.”

Ifs Should Humans Earth Human Beings Rights Bases Claims Caring Being True Criteria True Peace

Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

“If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.”

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.”

Ifs Lasts Asks Sorry Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Ifs Giving Ability Capable Receiving

Author:Pope Francis

“Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you with open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk: you won’t be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don’t be afraid, trust him, be confident that he is close to you, he is with you and he will give you the peace you are looking for and the strength to live as he would have you do.”

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Book:The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ

Source: The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ

“If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.”

Ifs Long Whole Joy Sadness One Day Committed Whole Life Faithful Invitations Long Life Being Faithful

Author:Pope Francis

“Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.”

“God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.”

Ifs Heart Waiting Forgiving Tired Repent Open Heart

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Ifs Heart Choices Evil Waiting Church Lord Clear Welcome Willingness Waiting For You Open Your Heart Willingness To Serve

Author:Pope Francis

“I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.”

Ifs Knows Men Humans Faces Causes Nature Taken Activity Human Activity

Author:Pope Francis

“I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.”

Ifs Knows Men Nature Majority Faults Slap

Author:Pope Francis

“If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.”

Ifs Persons Together Individual Grows Respect Personal Growth Good Globalization

Author:Pope Francis

“If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we're all together but conserves the dignity of each ... that's good.”

Ifs Together Dignity Spheres Centre Globalization

Author:Pope Francis

“If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.”

Ifs Eye Law Evil Spirals Eye For An Eye

Author:Pope Francis

“It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.”

People Ifs Children Church Attitude Leader Cry Quiet Preaching Sublime Reproach Crying Child

Book:With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards

Source: With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards

“If a company can declare bankruptcy, why can't a country do so?”

Ifs Country Company Bankruptcy

Author:Pope Francis

“If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.”

Ifs Want Giving Use Opportunity Security Yardsticks

Author:Pope Francis

“In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him. ... Should the same not happen in society?”

Ifs Feels Should Children Problem Home Happens Parent Support Serious Grandparent Assistance Excluded

Author:Pope Francis

“It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common.”

Ifs Men Able Order Religious Common Honest Identity Brother Men And Women Harmony Conviction Cooperation Brothers And Sisters Presenting Forsake

Author:Pope Francis

“In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices.”

Ifs Heart Stills Country Pay Fine Crosses Jail Rejoice

Author:Pope Francis

“A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.”

“If a person has done wrong, is conscious of what he has done and does not say sorry, I ask God to take him into account. I forgive him, but he does not receive that forgiveness, he is closed to forgiveness. We must forgive, because we were all forgiven. It is another thing to receive that forgiveness.”

Ifs Persons Doe Done Asks Conscious Accounts Forgiving Sorry Forgiven Saying Sorry

Author:Pope Francis

“If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.”

Ifs Knows Lord Know How Doors Willing Praying Remains Forgiving Priests Locked

Author:Pope Francis

“I don't know if I had success or not. But I am afraid of myself. Why am I afraid of myself? I always feel - I don't know - weak in the sense of not having power and also power is a fleeting thing, here today, gone tomorrow.”

Ifs Knows Feels Today Gone Tomorrow Weak Fleeting Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Author:Pope Francis

“It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.”

Ifs Feels Should Stills Important Jesus Can Do Path Progress Humble Defined True Power

Author:Pope Francis

“Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK.”

Ifs Years Asks Study Imagine Eight Preparation Priests

Author:Pope Francis

“I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and say I want communion, as if joining in Communion were an award. It's a work towards integration, all doors are open, but we cannot say, 'from here on they can have communion.'”

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Author:Pope Francis

“If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.”

Ifs Speak Violence Catholic Islamic

Author:Pope Francis

“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good. This common good also includes the earth... the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all.”

Ifs World Humans Earth Jobs Challenges Wealth Common Creation Source Essentials Areas Concern Roots Environmental Prosperity Noble Improving Vocation Common Good Environmental Challenges

Author:Pope Francis

“There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.”

Ifs World Two Form Evil Brother Demand Wounds Contemporary Temptation Sinner Divides Camps Righteous Brothers And Sisters Polarization Reductionism

Author:Pope Francis

“I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Said Christian Doubt Wall Trump Benefits Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:Pope Francis

“Patriarch Kirill. I would prefer - because if I say one thing, I have to say another and another and another. I would prefer that what we spoke about, us, alone, will remain only what we said in public.”

Ifs Said One Thing Spokes Patriarch

Author:Pope Francis

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