Pope Francis Quotes And Sayings

Tell Me: When God Looks At A Gay Person, Does He Endorse The Existence Of This Person With Love, Or Reject And Condemn This Person?... It Is Necessary To Accompany Them With Mercy.

We Have Observed That, In Society And The World In Which We Live, Selfishness Has Increased More Than Love For Others, And That Men Of Good Will Must Work, Each With His Own Strengths And Expertise, To Ensure That Love For Others Increases Until It Is Equal And Possibly Exceeds Love For Oneself.

Anyone Who Wants To Be Pope Doesn't Care Much For Themselves, God Doesn't Bless Them. I Didn't Want To Be Pope.

Sin, Also For Those Who Don't Have Faith, Exists When One Goes Against One's Conscience. To Listen To And Obey It Means, In Fact, To Decide In Face Of What Is Perceived As Good Or Evil. And On This Decision Pivots The Goodness Or Malice Of Our Action.

This Is Me, A Sinner On Whom The Lord Has Turned His Gaze. And This Is What I Said When They Asked Me If I Would Accept My Election As Pontiff. I Am A Sinner, But I Trust In The Infinite Mercy And Patience Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, And I Accept In A Spirit Of Penance.

Each Of Us Has A Vision Of Good And Of Evil. We Have To Encourage People To Move Towards What They Think Is Good... Everyone Has His Own Idea Of Good And Evil And Must Choose To Follow The Good And Fight Evil As He Conceives Them. That Would Be Enough To Make The World A Better Place.

Every Man, Every Woman Who Has To Take Up The Service Of Government, Must Ask Themselves Two Questions: 'Do I Love My People In Order To Serve Them Better? Am I Humble And Do I Listen To Everybody, To Diverse Opinions In Order To Choose The Best Path?' If You Don't Ask Those Questions, Your Governance Will Not Be Good.

I Sincerely Hope I Can Contribute To The Progress There Has Been In Relations Between Jews And Catholics Since The Second Vatican Council In A Spirit Of Renewed Collaboration.

In Our Ecclesiastical Region There Are Priests Who Don't Baptize The Children Of Single Mothers Because They Weren't Conceived In The Sanctity Of Marriage. These Are Today's Hypocrites. Those Who Clericalize The Church. Those Who Separate The People Of God From Salvation.

Jesus Teaches Us Another Way: Go Out. Go Out And Share Your Testimony, Go Out And Interact With Your Brothers, Go Out And Share, Go Out And Ask. Become The Word In Body As Well As Spirit.

Money Has To Serve, Not To Rule.

To Say That You Can Kill In The Name Of God Is Blasphemy.

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.

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.

A Mother Defends Herself With A Heart Filled With Love Before Doing So With Words. I Wonder Whether There Is Any Love For The Church In The Hearts Of Those Who Pay So Much Attention To The Scandals.

God Never Gives Someone A Gift They Are Not Capable Of Receiving. If He Gives Us The Gift Of Christmas, It Is Because We All Have The Ability To Understand And Receive It.

Inconsistency On The Part Of Pastors And The Faithful Between What They Say And What They Do, Between Word And Manner Of Life, Is Undermining The Church's Credibility.

There Is A Need For Financial Reform Along Ethical Lines That Would Produce In Its Turn An Economic Reform To Benefit Everyone. This Would Nevertheless Require A Courageous Change Of Attitude On The Part Of Political Leaders.

Worshipping The Lord Means Giving Him The Place That He Must Have; Worshipping The Lord Means Stating, Believing - Not Only By Our Words - That He Alone Truly Guides Our Lives; Worshipping The Lord Means That We Are Convinced Before Him That He Is The Only God, The God Of Our Lives, The God Of Our History.

When We Walk Without The Cross, When We Build Without The Cross And When We Proclaim Christ Without The Cross, We Are Not Disciples Of The Lord. We Are Worldly. We May Be Bishops, Priests, Cardinals, Popes, All Of This, But We Are Not Disciples Of The Lord.

Every Child That Isn't Born, But Is Unjustly Condemned To Be Aborted, Has The Face Of Jesus Christ, Has The Face Of The Lord.

Religion Has The Right To Express Its Opinion In The Service Of The People, But God In Creation Has Set Us Free: It Is Not Possible To Interfere Spiritually In The Life Of A Person.

Perhaps I Can Say That I Am A Bit Astute, That I Can Adapt To Circumstances, But It Is Also True That I Am A Bit Naive. Yes, But The Best Summary, The One That Comes More From The Inside And I Feel Most True Is This: I Am A Sinner Whom The Lord Has Looked Upon.

I Have A Dogmatic Certainty: God Is In Every Person's Life. God Is In Everyone's Life. Even If The Life Of A Person Has Been A Disaster, Even If It Is Destroyed By Vices, Drugs Or Anything Else - God Is In This Person's Life. You Can - You Must - Try To Seek God In Every Human Life.

My Authoritarian And Quick Manner Of Making Decisions Led Me To Have Serious Problems And To Be Accused Of Being Ultraconservative. I Have Never Been A Right-winger. It Was My Authoritarian Way Of Making Decisions That Created Problems.

Proselytism Is Solemn Nonsense; It Makes No Sense. We Need To Get To Know Each Other, Listen To Each Other And Improve Our Knowledge Of The World Around Us.

Those Who Today Always Look For Disciplinarian Solutions, Those Who Long For An Exaggerated Doctrinal 'Security,' Those Who Stubbornly Try To Recover A Past That No Longer Exists - They Have A Static And Inward-directed View Of Things. In This Way, Faith Becomes An Ideology Among Other Ideologies.

I Believe In God - Not In A Catholic God; There Is No Catholic God. There Is God, And I Believe In Jesus Christ, His Incarnation. Jesus Is My Teacher And My Pastor, But God, The Father, Abba, Is The Light And The Creator. This Is My Being.

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.

We Must Restore Hope To Young People, Help The Old, Be Open To The Future, Spread Love. Be Poor Among The Poor. We Need To Include The Excluded And Preach Peace.

The Son Of God Became Incarnate In The Souls Of Men To Instill The Feeling Of Brotherhood. All Are Brothers And All Children Of God.

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.

A Church Without Women Would Be Like The Apostolic College Without Mary. The Madonna Is More Important Than The Apostles, And The Church Herself Is Feminine, The Spouse Of Christ And A Mother.

Unrestrained Liberalism Only Makes The Strong Stronger And The Weak Weaker And Excludes The Most Excluded.

In This Quest To Seek And Find God In All Things, There Is Still An Area Of Uncertainty. There Must Be. If A Person Says That He Met God With Total Certainty And Is Not Touched By A Margin Of Uncertainty, Then This Is Not Good.

Where There Is No Work, There Is No Dignity.

Grace Is Not Part Of Consciousness; It Is The Amount Of Light In Our Souls, Not Knowledge Nor Reason.

It Makes Me Sad When I Find Sisters Who Aren't Joyful. They Might Smile, But With Just A Smile They Could Be Flight Attendants!

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.

If Someone Is Gay And He Searches For The Lord And Has Good Will, Who Am I To Judge? We Shouldn't Marginalise People For This. They Must Be Integrated Into Society.

Truth, According To The Christian Faith, Is God's Love For Us In Jesus Christ. Therefore, Truth Is A Relationship.

I Am A Sinner. This Is The Most Accurate Definition. It Is Not A Figure Of Speech, A Literary Genre. I Am A Sinner.

These Days There Is A Lot Of Poverty In The World, And That's A Scandal When We Have So Many Riches And Resources To Give To Everyone. We All Have To Think About How We Can Become A Little Poorer.

This Is Important: To Get To Know People, Listen, Expand The Circle Of Ideas. The World Is Crisscrossed By Roads That Come Closer Together And Move Apart, But The Important Thing Is That They Lead Towards The Good.

It Is True That Going Out On To The Street Implies The Risk Of Accidents Happening, As They Would To Any Ordinary Man Or Woman. But If The Church Stays Wrapped Up In Itself, It Will Age. And If I Had To Choose Between A Wounded Church That Goes Out On To The Streets And A Sick, Withdrawn Church, I Would Definitely Choose The First One.

Politics Is The Most Important Of The Civil Activities And Has Its Own Field Of Action, Which Is Not That Of Religion.

The People Of God Want Pastors, Not Clergy Acting Like Bureaucrats Or Government Officials.

Oh, How I Would Like A Poor Church, And For The Poor.

You Might Say, 'Can't We Have A More Human Christianity, Without The Cross, Without Jesus, Without Stripping Ourselves?' In This Way We'd Become Pastry-shop Christians, Like A Pretty Cake And Nice Sweet Things. Pretty, But Not True Christians.

Abortion Isn't A Lesser Evil, It's A Crime. Taking One Life To Save Another, That's What The Mafia Does. It's A Crime. It's An Absolute Evil.