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Evil Quotes by Pope Francis

57 Evil quotes by Pope Francis

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Pope Francis writes that evil can be powerful, but love and mercy are stronger forces that can defeat it. He urges us to fight evil with good, to face suffering, and to avoid hiding it like an open wound. He also warns that thinking everything is relative can leave us spiritually poor, and that true strength comes from God.

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The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

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Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

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God’s goodness is stronger than any evil!

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The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

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Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

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It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.

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Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world

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Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

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Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save…

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Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save…

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Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS…

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The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

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There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

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Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

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

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Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,

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If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by…

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Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think…

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Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem,…

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We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts'…

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Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything.…

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Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must…

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Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even…

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Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means,…

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Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a…

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Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere…

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Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it; he…

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There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you…

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Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it…

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A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while…

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Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion.

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The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

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The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

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Inequality is the root of social evil.

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We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

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Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he…

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The fight against evil is long and difficult. It is essential to pray constantly and to be patient.

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When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.

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Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.

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Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

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