Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Pope Francis (Argentinean Catholic Religious Leader)

Pope Francis (b.1936,) also called Francis I, originally Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is the bishop of Rome and the pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church since 2013. He was the first pope from the Western Hemisphere, the first from South America, and the first from the Jesuit order.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Italian immigrants, Francis graduated as a chemical technician from the University of Santiago in 1960. After working as a chemical technician at a food laboratory, he decided to become a priest and entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1958. He graduated with a theology degree from the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel 1970.

Francis was ordained a priest in 1969, became Provincial (head) of the Jesuits in Argentina 1973–79, Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, and a Cardinal in 2001.

In 2013, Francis was elected pope, the leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics worldwide, in succession to Pope Benedict XVI. He is the first pope to come from Latin America, in recognition of the increasing influence of Latin America’s Spanish-speaking faithful.

Francis’s more liberal views on theological, social, and political matters combined with personal humility quickly established him as one of the world’s most respected moral leaders. He has made surprising pronouncements on several controversial issues, signaling a shift for Roman Catholicism as it moves into the 21st century after several years of confusion and scandal.

Francis’s works include True Power Is Service (2007; Spanish: El verdadero poder es el servicio,) The Joy of the Gospel (2013,) The Joy of Discipleship (2016,) Happiness in This Life (2017,) and Our Father: Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer (2018.) He is the subject of the biopic Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018.)

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The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.
Pope Francis

God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us…Our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
Pope Francis

We all have a duty to do good. And this commandment for everyone to do good, I think, is a beautiful path towards peace.
Pope Francis

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
Pope Francis

If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.
Pope Francis

Mystics have been fundamental to the church. A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
Pope Francis

Whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.
Pope Francis

If we approach nature and the environment without this openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs.
Pope Francis

I urge you to work together in promoting a true, worldwide ethical mobilization which, beyond all differences of religious or political convictions, will spread and put into practice a shared ideal of fraternity and solidarity, especially with regard to the poorest and those most excluded.
Pope Francis

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the good.
Pope Francis

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