Pope Francis Quotes About Charity

• The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

  Pope Francis

  Rome, Catholic, Church

• Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.

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  Charity, Way, Best Way

  twitter.com. January 24, 2015.

• There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

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  Suffering, Overcoming, Charity

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 20, 2014.

• Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

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  Creativity, People, Charity

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. December 7, 2013.

• How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

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  The End Of The Day, Would Be, Charity

• True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

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  Dirty, Hands, Overcoming

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.122, SPCK

• Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

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  Beautiful, Charity, Want

• Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

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  Christian, Prayer, Humility

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.65, SPCK

• I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

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  Hurt, Catholic, Doe

  Pope Francis' Lenten Message, w2.vatican.va. December 26, 2013.

• Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

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  Hurt, Giving Up, Real

• To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to experience unity. Unity grows along the way, it never stands still. Unity happens when we walk together.

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  Unity, Together, Charity

• Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service of others and which fosters lawfulness and the common good. When a person discovers God, the true treasure, he abandons a selfish lifestyle and seeks to share with others the charity which comes from God. He who becomes a friend of God, loves his brothers and sisters, commits himself to safeguarding their life and their health, and also to respecting the environment and nature.

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  Brother, Selfish, Mean

• Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

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  Doe, Charity, Enough

• 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.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Money

• A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an unimaginable point. We could never have imagined that the same Lord would become one of us and walk with us, be present with us, present in His Church, present in the Eucharist, present in His Word, present in the poor, He is present, walking with us. And this is closeness: the shepherd close to his flock, close to his sheep, whom he knows, one by one.

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  Love, Father, Sheep

• ...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

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  Charity, Highest

  Pope Francis (2013). “I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope”, p.65, Paulist Press

• But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.

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  Charity, Way, Helping

  Pope Francis (2013). “I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope”, p.65, Paulist Press

• For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.

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  Love, Christian, Jesus

• "God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life.

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  Love, Jesus, Father

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.16, SPCK

• Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today, especially of God's love. God loved us, he loved us with such great love. I am thinking of what St Ignatius told us.... He pointed out two criteria on love. The first: love is expressed more clearly in actions than in words. The second: there is greater love in giving than in receiving.

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  Love, Jesus, Heart

• We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.

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  Home, School, Giving

• These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

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  Love, Self, Two

  "Is Pope Francis An Atheist and Ten Other Things I Learned From Him" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2015.

• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

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  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

• In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!

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  Risk, Charity, Indifferent

  Pope Francis' Holy Mass With The New Cardinals, w2.vatican.va. February 15, 2015.

• The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life. The good news is first announced to them, that God loves them before all others and comes to visit them through the acts of charity that the disciples of Christ carry out in his name.

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  Names, Essentials, News

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