Pope Francis Quotes
For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.
These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?
No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.
He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.
In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices.
As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't die with a corrupt heart, because otherwise the dogs of hell will take their blood.
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don’t have food - that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.
I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.
The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.
When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.
We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.
Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.
Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.
People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.
If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.
And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?
Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.
The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.
Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them.
Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.
The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.
May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.
We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.
Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.
I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.
I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.
We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.
We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.
A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.
This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil... But the devil exists and we must fight against him.
The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.
Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.
There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!
We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.