Pope Francis Quotes

Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they ...

This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development th...

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer s...

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questio...

Mostly, people are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to lis...

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beaut...

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen t...

Families who lovingly accept the difficult trial of a child with special needs are greatly to be adm...

God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people...God...

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom...

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but ha...

We can get angry: it's even healthy to get angry from time to time.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people...

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they t...

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to...

Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this...

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers beca...

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means statin...

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not...

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means t...

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrina...

Natural marriage, therefore, is fully understood in the light of its fulfilment in the sacrament of ...

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it anot...

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek ...

I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J...

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive metho...

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason...

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with anot...

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked m...

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening ...

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit agains...

We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness.

Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encount...

Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving G...

People are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to listen to t...

God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by care...

No amount of 'peace-building' will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained, in a...

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

As religious leaders, we are called to be true "people of dialogue," to cooperate in building peace ...

There is a Marian "style" to the Church's work of evangelization. Whenever we look to Mary, we come ...

Will we let ourselves become a Church that calls and welcomes sinners with open arms, that gives cou...

Mary was able to turn a stable into a home for Jesus, with poor swaddling clothes and an abundance o...

For the Church, the option for the poor is primarily a theological category rather than a cultural, ...

We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters...

The light of love proper to faith can illumine the question of our own time-concerning truth. Truth,...

Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many d...

What need does the earth have of us?

Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in oth...

Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their jo...

The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in lo...

Let's think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is ...

To put it simply: the Holy Spirit bothers us. Because he moves us, he makes us walk, he pushes the C...

Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs.

They believe, along the lines of social networks, that love can be connected or disconnected at the ...

The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say...

A child deserves to be born of that love, and not by any other means, for “he or she is not somethin...

It is one thing to be understanding of human weakness and the complexities of life, and another to a...

It is in the very nature of conjugal love to be definitive. The lasting union expressed by the marri...

...only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in...

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic ...

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor amon...

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car,...

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst...

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more tha...

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind...

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience ha...

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia d...

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that ...

We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy wi...

God always has patience.

Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, th...

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, be...

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can gove...

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't ma...

When the search for pleasure becomes obsessive, it holds us in thrall and keeps us from experiencing...

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each...

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal...

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if peo...

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscros...

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he wil...

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christm...

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a...

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in whic...

We all have the duty to do good.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her...