Pope Francis Quotes

The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

I have great love for Saint Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have an image of Saint Joseph sleeping. Even when he is asleep, he is taking care of the Church! Yes! We know that he can do that. So when I have a problem, a difficulty, I write a little note and I put it underneath Saint Joseph, so that he can dream about it! In other words I tell him: pray for this problem!

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

Negative feelings choke the Lord’s word in us.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.

In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

You can have large projects and implement them by means of a few of the smallest things. Or you can use weak means that are more effective than strong ones, as Paul also said in his First Letter to the Corinthians. [...] The wisdom of discernment redeems the necessary ambiguity of life and helps us find the most appropriate means, which do not always coincide with what looks great and strong.

We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ.

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.

The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

Please do not lose the ability to dream

What God cares about most is that we are His friends.

The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ’s cross, constantly invites us to rejoice.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Let us never forget this, he is pure mercy, let us go to Jesus!

It occurs to me: why is it mainly women, who to pass on the faith? Simply because the one who brought us Jesus is a woman. It is the path chosen by Jesus. He wanted to have a mother: the gift of faith comes to us through women, as Jesus came to us through Mary.

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!

Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot be reduced to optimism, which is only human. God does not mislead hope; God cannot deny himself. God is all promise.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg the Lord to accompany us are the most useful

I pray the breviary every morning. I like to pray with the psalms. Then, later, I celebrate Mass. I pray the Rosary. What I really prefer is adoration in the evening, even when I get distracted and think of other things, or even fall asleep praying. In the evening then, between seven and eight o'clock, I stay in front of the Blessed Sacrament for an hour in adoration. But I pray mentally even when I am waiting at the dentist or at other times of the day.

War is not to be waged in the name of God.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.

We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile.

I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.

I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

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

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