{"author":"Pope Francis","author_id":"Pope+Francis","total_quotes":94,"quotes":[{"text":"People are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to listen to their dramas and difficulties. This is what I call the “apostolate of the ear,” and it is important. Very important. I feel compelled to say to confessors: talk, listen with patience, and above all tell people that God loves them.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["god","god-s-love-for-us","listening"],"id":5270,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"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.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["politics","believe","long "],"id":13072,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["children","today","god "],"id":13125,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["life","spiritual","reading "],"id":17859,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["christ","jesus","pope-francis"],"id":20200,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["happiness"],"id":22762,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"Mostly, people are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to listen to their dramas and difficulties. This is what I call the “apostolate of the ear,” and it is important. Very important. I feel compelled to say to confessors: talk, listen with patience, and above all tell people that God loves them.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["god","god-s-love-for-us","listening"],"id":24614,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["vision","evil","good and evil "],"id":34619,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["love","relationship","truth "],"id":51512,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"},{"text":"We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters as they calmly sip their tea. No! We must become courageous Christians and go in search of the people who are the very flesh of Christ! ... This is the [issue]: the flesh of Christ, touching the flesh of Christ, taking upon ourselves this suffering for the poor.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["church","mercy","pope-francis","social-justice"],"id":58816,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":94,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}