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It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.
Pope Francis
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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
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I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.
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Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
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The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.
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Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.
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Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.
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When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.
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Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.
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In my own experience, including when I ask for advice, I would ask a collaborator, a friend, I also like to hear the opinion of a woman because they have such wealth. They look at things in a different way.
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I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.
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Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.
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Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.
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I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.
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