01c. 1980 ADTogether 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1980 ADI 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 / quote ↗
04c. 1980 ADThis is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.Pope Francis / quote ↗
05c. 1980 ADIt 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 And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.Pope Francis / quote ↗
06c. 1980 ADSince many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.Pope Francis / quote ↗
07c. 1980 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1980 ADReligion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.Pope Francis / quote ↗
09c. 1980 ADI believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.Pope Francis / quote ↗
10c. 1980 ADPolitics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.Pope Francis / quote ↗
11c. 1980 ADEach 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 / quote ↗
13c. 1980 ADThis 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 / quote ↗
14c. 1980 ADWorshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.Pope Francis / quote ↗
15c. 1980 ADYou cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.Pope Francis / quote ↗
16c. 1980 ADIn 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.Pope Francis / quote ↗
17c. 1980 ADA 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1980 ADFrom 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1980 ADFind new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.Pope Francis / quote ↗
20c. 1980 ADGrace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.Pope Francis / quote ↗
21c. 1980 ADProselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.Pope Francis / quote ↗
22c. 1980 ADAn 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1980 ADIf 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.Pope Francis / quote ↗
24c. 1980 ADIf 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.Pope Francis / quote ↗
