Pope Francis Quotes About Risk

• If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Happy Life, Water

  "Pope Francis’s ten secrets to happiness". www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2014.

• Not only would I say that the family is important for the evangelization of the new world. The family is important, and it is necessary for the survival of humanity. Without the family, the cultural survival of the human race would be at risk. The family, whether we like it or not, is the foundation.

  Pope Francis

  Race, Humanity, Risk

• It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Sick, Risk

  "Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church". www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

• Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Focus, Risk

  "Pope Francis on gay marriage, unmarried mothers ... and journalists". www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

• When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Law, Theory Of Evolution

  "Pope Francis: ‘Evolution Is Not Inconsistent With The Notion Of Creation’" by Josephine McKenna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2014.

• When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Theory Of Evolution, Risk

  "Pope Francis: 'Evolution ... is not inconsistent with the notion of creation'". www.ncronline.org. October 27, 2014.

• Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.

  Pope Francis

  Home, Men, Idols

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.20, Orbis Books

• Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Creative, Community

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

• We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don’t need young museums but we do need holy young people.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Museums, Knowing

  "FULL TEXT: Pope Francis' message, youth encounter, UST". Pope Francis' speech at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, www.rappler.com. January 18, 2015.

• Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you with open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk: you won’t be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don’t be afraid, trust him, be confident that he is close to you, he is with you and he will give you the peace you are looking for and the strength to live as he would have you do.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Distance, Giving

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.33, Loyola Press

• 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

• The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

  Pope Francis

  Rhythm Of Life, Risk, Obsession

• 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!

  Pope Francis

  Risk, Charity, Indifferent

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

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