Pope Francis Quotes About Challenges

• Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!

  Pope Francis

  Commitment, Joy, Challenges

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.34, BookBaby

• Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

  Pope Francis

  Sheep, Ninety Nine, Long

• The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.

  Pope Francis

  Challenges, Information, Today

  Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 49th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. January 23, 2015.

• Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, People, Challenges

• The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that this prophetic summons will challenge everyone, at all levels of society, to reject every form of corruption which diverts resources from the poor, and to make concerted efforts to ensure the inclusion of every man and woman and child in the life of the community.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Men, Years

• The challenge of life is to learn how to love

  Pope Francis

  Challenges, How To Love, Life Is

• A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.

  Pope Francis

  Garden, Challenges, May

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. July 2, 2015.

• What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

  Pope Francis

  Knowing, Challenges, Important

• The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

  Pope Francis

  Communication, Media, People

  Pope Francis' Message For The 49th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. January 23, 2015.

• We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Struggle, Doors

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.87, SPCK

• Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

  Pope Francis

  Suicide, Happy Life, Thinking

  "12* Powerful Climate Allies That GOP Denier Leaders Can’t Ignore" by Amanda Hanley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

  Pope Francis

  Reality, Order, Leader

• Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Challenges, Culture

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence”, p.20, Random House

• Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

  Pope Francis

  War, Refugee Crisis, Our World

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.

  Pope Francis

  Challenges, Faces, Hardship

  "Why Philadelphia Loves The Pope". "All Things Considered" with Jeff Brady, www.npr.org. September 26, 2015.

• Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Psychology, Challenges

• Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.

  Pope Francis

  Ill Health, People, Joy

  "Full transcript of Pope Francis' inflight interview from Philadelphia to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. September 28, 2015.

• If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Challenges, Cry

• The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well.

  Pope Francis

  People, Challenges, Church

  In-flight interview from Philadelphia to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. September 27, 2015.

• The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge.

  Pope Francis

  Creativity, Keys, Two

  "Church Should Apologize To Gays, Pope Francis Says". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. June 27, 2016.

• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Jobs, Roots, Challenges

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Running, Spiritual

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.29, BookBaby

• All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

  Pope Francis

  Past, Errors, People

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts”, p.73, Liturgical Press

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