Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let us not grow tired of knocking at God's door. Let us go to the heart of God through Mary, our whole… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A Christian who does not protect creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Education cannot be neutral. It is either positive or negative; either it enriches or it impoverishes; either it enables a person to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I then greet and cordially thank you all, dear friends belonging to other religious traditions; first of all the Muslims, who worship… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Most people nowadays would not consider love as related in any way to truth. Love is seen as an experience associated with the world… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
![“I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.” quote by Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/971/pope-francis-85_being-true_i-asked-guadalupe-for-the-world-for-peac_1651249.jpg)
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