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I think so-called unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded. We need great freedom, no discrimination, no demagoguery and a lot of love....
— Pope Francis · Spirituality
thumb|right|I [[love the mystics...The mystic manages to strip himself of action, of facts, objectives and even the pastoral mission and rises until he reaches communion with the Beatitudes. Brief mom...
— Pope Francis · Spirituality
Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear. The tongue moves but does not speak.
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the lig...
— Pope Francis · Spirituality
This is what I want, a poor Church for the poor.
— Pope Francis · Spirituality
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.[https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ed/turnbullvva/quotes-from-mother-teresa/]
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
We will also discuss the role of women in the Church. Remember that the Church (la chiesa) is feminine.
— Pope Francis · Spirituality
From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No. I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by a...
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
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 · Spirituality
You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith. I start by saying — and this is the fundamental thing — that God’s mercy has no limits if you go ...
— Pope Francis · Spirituality
Transcendence remains because that light, all in everything, transcends the universe and the species it inhabits at this stage.
— Pope Francis · Spirituality
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
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. In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our speci...
— Pope Francis · Spirituality
People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes.
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
We are misunderstood, we are misrepresented, we are misreported. We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not social workers. We are religious, we are religious, we are relig...
— Mother Teresa · Spirituality
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
— Pope Francis · Spirituality