Dilexit Nos: 10 inspiring phrases from Pope Francis

We compile some of the most inspiring phrases of Pope Francis in the encyclical He loved us about the divine and human love of the heart of Jesus Christ:

1. Pure appearance, dissimulation and deception damage and pervert the heart. Beyond so many attempts to show or express something that we are not, everything is at stake in the heart, there what one shows on the outside and the concealments do not count, there we are ourselves. And that is the basis of any solid project for our life, since nothing worthwhile is built without the heart. Appearance and lies only offer emptiness.

2. When the specificity of the heart is not appreciated, we lose the answers that intelligence alone cannot give, we lose the encounter with others, we lose poetry. And we miss the story and our stories, because the true personal adventure is the one that is built from the heart. At the end of life only that will count.

3. The Heart of Christ is ecstasy, it is an exit, it is a donation, it is an encounter. In it we become capable of relating in a healthy and happy way, and of building the Kingdom of love and justice in this world. Our heart united with that of Christ is capable of this social miracle.

4. Before the Heart of Christ, I ask the Lord to once again have compassion on this wounded land, which he wanted to inhabit as one of us. May he pour out the treasures of his light and his love, so that our world that survives between wars, socioeconomic imbalances, consumerism and the anti-human use of technology, can recover what is most important and necessary: ​​the heart.

5. Since it is difficult for us to trust, because we have been hurt by so many falsehoods, attacks and disappointments, He whispers in our ears: “Have confidence, son” (Mt 9:2); It’s about overcoming fear and realizing that with Him we have nothing to lose.

6. When it seems that everyone is ignoring us, that no one is interested in what happens to us, that we are of no importance to anyone, He is paying attention to us.

7. I invite each one to ask themselves if there is not more rationality, more truth and more wisdom in certain manifestations of that love that seeks to console the Lord than in the cold, distant, calculated and minimal acts of love of which those of us who pretend to possess are capable. a more reflective, cultivated and mature faith.

8. Christ asks you, without neglecting prudence and respect, not to be ashamed to recognize your friendship with Him. He asks you to dare to tell others that it is good for you to have found him.

9. Today everything is bought and paid for, and it seems that one’s sense of dignity depends on things that are achieved with the power of money. We only need to accumulate, consume and distract ourselves, prisoners of a degrading system that does not allow us to look beyond our immediate and petty needs. The love of Christ is outside that perverse gear and only he can free us from that fever where there is no longer room for gratuitous love. He is capable of giving heart to this land and reinventing love where we think that the ability to love has definitively died.

10. From the wound in Christ’s side, that river continues to flow that never runs out, that does not pass, that offers itself again and again for whoever wants to love. Only his love will make a new humanity possible.