Top 1404 Quotes & Sayings by Pope Francis - Page 5

If we are truly in love with Christ and if we sense how much he loves us, our heart will 'light up' with a joy that spreads to everyone around us.

God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.

Faith is professed with the lips and with the heart, through words & through love.

Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded'.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.

When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?...Always?...And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!

Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

Peace is a daily commitment. It is a homemade peace.

Jesus washes the feet of the Apostles. Are we ready to serve others like this.

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.

Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.

Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

Do we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, so as to be an active part of our communities, or do we close in on ourselves, saying 'I have so many things to do, that's not my job'?

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.

Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.

It is by God’s mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.

In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated. The relationship of mankind with nature must not be conducted with greed, manipulation and exploitation, but it must conserve the divine harmony that exists between creatures and Creation within the logic of respect and care, so it can be put to the service of our brothers, also of future generations.

Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

If you don’t learn how to cry, you cannot be a good Christian. When they posed this question to us – why children suffer, why this or that tragedy occurs in life – our response must be either silence or a word that is born of our tears. Be courageous, don’t be afraid to cry.

This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to love Him! The best way to love Him in return is to open our hearts and let Him love us. Let Him draw close to us and feel Him close to us. This is really very difficult: letting ourselves be loved by Him. And that is perhaps what we need to ask today in the Mass: 'Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of letting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness ! May the Lord give us this grace.

Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.