Pope Francis Quotes About Giving Up

• Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

  Pope Francis

  Dream, Giving Up, People

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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

  Pope Francis

  Giving Up, Evil, Faces

• Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.

  Pope Francis

  Giving Up, Heart, Forgiving

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.31, SPCK

• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Giving Up, Real

• Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up.

  Pope Francis

  Giving Up, Heart, Loses

  Pope Francis, The Word Among Us (2013). “Pope Francis Speaks to Our Hearts: Words of Challenge and Hope”, p.124, The Word Among Us Press

• There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things that are often hidden. I know some who concern themselves with feeding the poor or who give up their free time to work in a parish. As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise ... a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Giving Up, Fall

• The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

• To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its perfection. A religious must never give up prophesising Let us think about what so many great saints, monks and religious men and women have done, from St Anthony the Abbot onward. Being prophets may sometimes involve making ruido [Spanish for noise]. I do not know how to put it Prophecy makes noise, uproar, some say 'a mess.' But in reality, the charism of religious people is like yeast: prophecy announces the spirit of the Gospel.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

• Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

  Pope Francis

  Giving Up, School, Broken

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.74, BookBaby

• We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

  Pope Francis

  Giving Up, Commitment, People

  "Pope Francis declares union between man and woman 'at root of marriage' in blow to gay rights" by Adam Withnall, www.independent.co.uk. November 18, 2014.

• 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

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