Top 1404 Quotes & Sayings by Pope Francis - Page 8

There are no part-time Christians.

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.

This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.

Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.

We are all missionary disciples

I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!

Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis

We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

It is important to have friends we can trust. But it is essential to trust the Lord, who never lets us down.

Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.

The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father’s tenderness and love towards each of us.

We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.

Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

Reject every form of corruption.

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.