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Finding God In All Things Is Not An 'empirical Eureka.' When We Desire To Encounter God, We Would Like To Verify Him Immediately By An Empirical Method. But You Cannot Meet God This Way...a Contemplative Attitude Is Necessary: It Is The Feeling That You Are Moving Along The Good Path Of Understanding And Affection Toward Things And Situations. Profound Peace, Spiritual Consolation, Love Of God, And Love Of All Things In God-this Is The Sign That You Are On This Right Path.

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Finding God In All

Pope Francis

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Finding God In All Things Is Not An 'empirical Eureka.' When We Desire To Encounter God, We Would Like To Verify Him Immediately By An Empirical Method. But You Cannot Meet God This Way...a Contemplative Attitude Is Necessary: It Is The Feeling That You Are Moving Along The Good Path Of Understanding And Affection Toward Things And Situations. Profound Peace, Spiritual Consolation, Love Of God, And Love Of All Things In God-this Is The Sign That You Are On This Right Path.

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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!

Europe Has Discarded Its Children. A Bit Triumphantly. I Remember That When I Was Studying In One Country The Clinics That Did Abortions Then Prepared Everything To Send It To Cosmetic Factories. Makeup Made With The Blood Of Innocents. And This Was Something To Brag About, Because It Was Progressive.

I Believe That Catholics Involved In Politics Carry The Values Of Their Religion Within Them, But Have The Mature Awareness And Expertise To Implement Them. The Church Will Never Go Beyond Its Task Of Expressing And Disseminating Its Values, At Least As Long As I'm Here.

When We Don't Preach The Lord, We Preach The Devil, And When We Preach Worldliness, We Preach The Devil

Art In The Church Fundamentally Exists For Evangelization

It Is Vital That Government Leaders And Financial Leaders Take Heed And Broaden Their Horizons, Working To Ensure That All Citizens Have Dignified Work, Education, And Healthcare.

Drug Addiction Is An Evil, And With Evil There Can Be No Yielding Or Compromise.

You Cannot Provoke. You Cannot Insult The Faith Of Others. You Cannot Make Fun Of The Faith Of Others.

I Prefer A Church Which Is Bruised, Hurting And Dirty Because It Has Been Out On The Streets, Rather Than A Church Which Is Unhealthy From Being Confined And From Clinging To Its Own Security.

And Now I Would Like To Give The Blessing, But First - First I Ask A Favor Of You: Before The Bishop Blesses His People, I Ask You To Pray To The Lord That He Will Bless Me: The Prayer Of The People Asking The Blessing For Their Bishop.

We Don't Need Youth Museums But We Do Need Holy Young People.

Some People Believe That - Pardon My Language - In Order To Be Good Catholics, We Should Be Like Rabbits. No.

Jesus Intercedes For Us Each Day. Let Us Pray: Lord, Have Mercy On Me; Intercede For Me!

When Everything Falls Apart, Only One Thing Sustains Our Hope: God Loves Us, He Loves Everyone!

How Many Solutions Are Found To Family Problems If We Take Time To Reflect? If We Think Of A Husband Or Wife And We Dream About Their Good Qualities That They Have? Don’t Ever Lose The Illusion Of When You Were Boyfriend And Girlfriend!

Together With The Social Responsibility Of Businesses, There Is Also The Social Responsibility Of Consumers. Every Person Ought To Have The Awareness That 'purchasing Is Always A Moral-and Not Simply An Economic-act.

We Cannot Take A Step In Our Christian Life Without The Help Of The Lord, Because We Are Weak.

To Build Peace Is Difficult But To Live Without It Is Torment.

I Had The Habit Of Not Accepting Prizes Or Honors, But Always, Not Out Of Humility, But Because I Don't Like Them. Maybe It's A Little Crazy, But It's Good To Have It, But I Just Don't Like Them.

I Want To See The Church Get Closer To The People. I Want To Get Rid Of Clericalism, The Mundane, This Closing Ourselves Off Within Ourselves, In Our Parishes, Schools Or Structures. Because These Need To Get Out!

If Globalization Is A Sphere, Where Each Point Is Equidistant From The Centre, Then It Isn't Good Because It Annuls Each Of Us. But If Globalization Joins Us As A Polyhedron Where We're All Together But Conserves The Dignity Of Each ... That's Good.

The Church Is Likewise Conscious Of The Responsibility Which All Of Us Have For Our World, For The Whole Of Creation, Which We Must Love And Protect. There Is Much That We Can Do To Benefit The Poor, The Needy And Those Who Suffer, And To Favour Justice, Promote Reconciliation And Build Peace. But Before All Else We Need To Keep Alive In Our World The Thirst For The Absolute, And To Counter The Dominance Of A One-dimensional Vision Of The Human Person, A Vision Which Reduces Human Beings To What They Produce And To What They Consume: This Is One Of The Most Insidious Temptations Of Our Time.

And With A Little Sense Of Humor We Can Say That There Are Christian Bats Who Prefer The Shadows To The Light Of The Presence Of The Lord.

Although It Is A Symbol Of Life, The Female Body Is Unfortunately Not Rarely Attacked And Disfigured, Even By Those Who Should Be Its Protector And Life Companion.

Saint John Paul Ii, Pray For Us And Especially For Our Youth.

Consumerism Has Accustomed Us To Waste. But Throwing Food Away Is Like Stealing It From The Poor And Hungry.

We Cannot Give Up In The Face Of Evil. God Is Love And He Has Defeated Evil Through Christ’s Death And Resurrection.

We Have Created New Idols. The Worship Of The Ancient Golden Calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) Has Returned In A New And Ruthless Guise In The Idolatry Of Money And The Dictatorship Of An Impersonal Economy Lacking A Truly Human Purpose. The Worldwide Crisis Affecting Finance And The Economy Lays Bare Their Imbalances And, Above All, Their Lack Of Real Concern For Human Beings; Man Is Reduced To One Of His Needs Alone: Consumption.

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.

Please Do Not Lose The Ability To Dream

A Christian Who Does Not Pray For Those Who Govern Is Not A Good Christian.

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