Pope Francis Quotes
I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.
A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!
It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.
Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.
It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.
When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.
An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.
When everything falls apart, only one thing sustains our hope: God loves us, he loves everyone!
Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.
All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.
Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.
God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.
A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.
Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!
Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.
Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.
If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!
Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!
Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.
We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.
Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.
Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them; a Church which accompanies them on their journey.
The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ
Today let us all ask ourselves whether we are afraid of what God might ask, or of what he does ask.... Do I truly let God into my life? How do I answer him?
All Catholics must ask themselves what they personally have done lately to build up the holiness of the church and ensure people feel welcomed and loved in it.
There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.
Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.
