Pope Francis Quotes About Youth

• We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

  Pope Francis

  Museums, People, Needs

  "Pope to Filipinos: We need holy young people" by Camille Diola, www.philstar.com. January 18, 2015.

• Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.

  Pope Francis

  Saint, Youth, Praying

• Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Self

• Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Impact, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.33, BookBaby

• Let us encourage the generosity which is typical of the young and help them to work actively in building a better world. Youth do not solely need material things. Above all, they need to have those non-material values which are the spiritual heart of a people ... spirituality, generosity, solidarity, perseverance, fraternity, and joy.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Heart

• In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. To be magnanimous with interior liberty and a spirit of service, spiritual formation is necessary. Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus Christ ever more!

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Jesus, Children

  Pope Francis during meeting with Students of Jesuit Schools, zenit.org. June 7, 2013.

• There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Rights, Dignity Of Work

• 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.

• They are our future, and we must have a dialogue. This dialogue between the past and the future is important. Because of this I underline so much the relationship between the youth and grandparents. They must speak with.

  Pope Francis

  Past, Grandparent, Important

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight presser from Poland". www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

• I don't like it when I hear it said: 'but these youth say stupid things!'

  Pope Francis

  Stupid, Youth, Said

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight presser from Poland". www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

• The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.

  Pope Francis

  Stupid, Doe, Youth

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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