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Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home QUOTES

Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home QUOTES

1 " Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

2 " What need does the earth have of us? "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

3 " It is in the very nature of conjugal love to be definitive. The lasting union expressed by the marriage vows is more than a formality or a traditional formula; it is rooted in the natural inclinations of the human person. For believers, it is also a covenant before God that calls for fidelity. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

4 " Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

5 " It is one thing to be understanding of human weakness and the complexities of life, and another to accept ideologies that attempt to sunder what are inseparable aspects of reality. Let us not fall into the sin of trying to replace the Creator. We are creatures, and not omnipotent. Creation is prior to us and must be received as a gift. At the same time, we are called to protect our humanity, and this means, in the first place, accepting it and respecting it as it was created. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

6 " We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. Every act of cruelty towards any creature is contrary to human dignity. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

7 " Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

8 " We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty. It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good. When the foundations of social life are corroded, what ensues are battles over conflicting interests, new forms of violence and brutality, and obstacles to the growth of a genuine culture of care for the environment. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

9 " If someone has not learned to stop and admire something beautiful, we should not be surprised if he or she treats everything as an object to be used and abused without scruple. If we want to bring about deep change, we need to realize that certain mindsets really do influence our behaviour. Our efforts at education will be inadequate and ineffectual unless we strive to promote a new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature. Otherwise, the paradigm of consumerism will continue to advance, with the help of the media and the highly effective workings of the market. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

10 " We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

11 " We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

12 " La desaparición de la humildad, en un ser humano desaforadamente entusiasmado con la posibilidad de dominarlo todo sin límite alguno, sólo puede terminar dañando a la sociedad y al ambiente. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

13 " We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

14 " the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail” (Rom 8:22). We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth (cf. Gen 2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

15 " 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. By contrast, if we feel intimately united with all that exists, then sobriety and care will well up spontaneously. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

16 " The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of arrival, which is God, in that transcendent fullness where the risen Christ embraces and illumines all things. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

17 " Por ejemplo, muchos pájaros e insectos que desaparecen a causa de los agrotóxicos creados por la tecnología son útiles a la misma agricultura, y su desaparición deberá ser sustituida con otra intervención tecnológica, que posiblemente traerá nuevos efectos nocivos. Son loables y a veces admirables los esfuerzos de científicos y técnicos que tratan de aportar soluciones a los problemas creados por el ser humano. Pero mirando el mundo advertimos que este nivel de intervención humana, frecuentemente al servicio de las finanzas y del consumismo, hace que la tierra en que vivimos en realidad se vuelva menos rica y bella, cada vez más limitada y gris, mientras al mismo tiempo el desarrollo de la tecnología y de las ofertas de consumo sigue avanzando sin límite. De este modo, parece que pretendiéramos sustituir una belleza irreemplazable e irrecuperable, por otra creada por nosotros. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

18 " the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. Every act of cruelty towards any creature is “contrary to human dignity”. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

19 " Necesitamos una solidaridad universal nueva. "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

20 " san Francisco, fiel a la Escritura, nos propone reconocer la naturaleza como un espléndido libro en el cual Dios nos habla y nos refleja algo de su hermosura y de su bondad: «A través de la grandeza y de la belleza de las criaturas, se conoce por analogía al autor» (Sb 13,5), "

― Pope Francis , Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home