Pope Francis Quotes About Difficulty

• Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Knowing, Doe

• To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty

  Pope Francis

  Lonely, Children, Mean

• Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Week, Holy

• Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Serenity, Trials

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. October 31, 2013.

• Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.

  Pope Francis

  Overcoming, Able, Moments

• I have great love for Saint Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have an image of Saint Joseph sleeping. Even when he is asleep, he is taking care of the Church! Yes! We know that he can do that. So when I have a problem, a difficulty, I write a little note and I put it underneath Saint Joseph, so that he can dream about it! In other words I tell him: pray for this problem!

  Pope Francis

  Dream, Writing, Sleep

  Pope Francis' Speech during the Meeting with Families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, w2.vatican.va. January 16, 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

• I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Selfish, Thinking

• In the face of life’s difficulties, let us ask the Lord for the strength to remain joyful witnesses to our faith.

  Pope Francis

  Faces, Joyful, Lord

• 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 us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Order, Small Steps

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

• Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Strength, Pain

• Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

  Pope Francis

  Dream, Giving Up, Today

• A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Order, Steps

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Name of God Is Mercy”, p.50, Random House

• Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Reading, Joy

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.75, SPCK

• 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.

• I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

  Pope Francis

  Creative, Youth, Speak

  In-flight interview from Poland, www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

• [Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.

  Pope Francis

  Son, Rome, People

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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