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Top 15 Francis George Quotes (2025 Update)

Francis George Quote: “God always wants what’s best for us, just as you want what’s best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts us before His Son, who He sacrificed for our salvation. But the Son did it voluntarily because He has the love of the Father before us.”

1. “God always wants what’s best for us, just as you want what’s best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts us before His Son, who He sacrificed for our salvation. But the Son did it voluntarily because He has the love of the Father before us.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “The fact that God knows everything does not mean that He is directly causing everything. He respects our freedom at our level. He makes it possible for us to act freely. If He didn’t, we wouldn’t act at all – we wouldn’t be at all.”

2. “The fact that God knows everything does not mean that He is directly causing everything. He respects our freedom at our level. He makes it possible for us to act freely. If He didn’t, we wouldn’t act at all – we wouldn’t be at all.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “That question in marriage is mutual submission, really – the next verse goes on: “husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church.””

3. “That question in marriage is mutual submission, really – the next verse goes on: “husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church.””

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.”

4. “The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it’s all contractual, people won’t know how to believe.”

5. “Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it’s all contractual, people won’t know how to believe.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what’s best for them, and at times they’re going to tell you what’s best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you’ll probably still do it because you love them.”

6. “So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what’s best for them, and at times they’re going to tell you what’s best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you’ll probably still do it because you love them.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “God’s is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we’re going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions.”

7. “God’s is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we’re going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “Religion doesn’t start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn’t start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That’s faith: trust in truth.”

8. “Religion doesn’t start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn’t start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That’s faith: trust in truth.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “Christ didn’t leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family – a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn’t be any freedom.”

9. “Christ didn’t leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family – a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn’t be any freedom.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “The question about who God is is a very public question. We don’t have the tools in this kind of political atmosphere to handle that, and maybe politics isn’t the best place to answer that. It is a public issue.”

10. “The question about who God is is a very public question. We don’t have the tools in this kind of political atmosphere to handle that, and maybe politics isn’t the best place to answer that. It is a public issue.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It’s love. It’s self-sacrifice. That’s what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.”

11. “From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It’s love. It’s self-sacrifice. That’s what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That’s what isn’t understood about Catholicism in this Protestant culture. It means that your conscience is formed by the Church, but in the end you’re responsible for your own activities.”

12. “The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That’s what isn’t understood about Catholicism in this Protestant culture. It means that your conscience is formed by the Church, but in the end you’re responsible for your own activities.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is very different. Philosophy wants to try to understand everything. It is a better dialogue partner with faith than law.”

13. “There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is very different. Philosophy wants to try to understand everything. It is a better dialogue partner with faith than law.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.”

14. “The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can’t handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.”

15. “Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can’t handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it’s purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme – sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance – you’ll end in violence too.”

16. “If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it’s purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme – sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance – you’ll end in violence too.”

— Francis George

Francis George Quote: “The priesthood will be meaningful only when God Himself and a life lived for Him, a holy life, are seen as meaningful and valuable. Personal intimacy with God must be ours if God is to act through us in a meaningful way. Otherwise, we are not living witnesses, but living lies.”

17. “The priesthood will be meaningful only when God Himself and a life lived for Him, a holy life, are seen as meaningful and valuable. Personal intimacy with God must be ours if God is to act through us in a meaningful way. Otherwise, we are not living witnesses, but living lies.”

— Francis George

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