Top 500 Pope Francis Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.”

— Pope Francis

452. “Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.”

— Pope Francis

453. “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.”

— Pope Francis

454. “Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a ‘disposable’ culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.”

— Pope Francis

455. “God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn’t get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.”

— Pope Francis

456. “Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.”

— Pope Francis

457. “Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!”

— Pope Francis

458. “I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down.”

— Pope Francis

459. “The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.”

— Pope Francis

460. “Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.”

— Pope Francis

461. “Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.”

— Pope Francis

462. “Do I guard myself, my heart, my feelings, my thoughts? Do I guard the treasure of grace? Do I guard the presence of the Holy Spirit in me? Or do I let go, feeling secure, believing that all is going well?”

— Pope Francis

463. “A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn’t a Christian.”

— Pope Francis

464. “We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.”

— Pope Francis

465. “How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?”

— Pope Francis

466. “Following Jesus means taking up one’s own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.”

— Pope Francis

467. “Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!”

— Pope Francis

468. “An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.”

— Pope Francis

469. “Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!”

— Pope Francis

470. “When no one is to blame, everyone is to blame.”

— Pope Francis

471. “Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.”

— Pope Francis

472. “Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.”

— Pope Francis

473. “Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.”

— Pope Francis

474. “To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty.”

— Pope Francis

475. “There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.”

— Pope Francis

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

— Pope Francis

477. “Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.”

— Pope Francis

478. “Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.”

— Pope Francis

479. “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!”

— Pope Francis

480. “Let’s pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.”

— Pope Francis

481. “We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.”

— Pope Francis

482. “On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.”

— Pope Francis

483. “A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.”

— Pope Francis

484. “God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.”

— Pope Francis

485. “The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.”

— Pope Francis

486. “The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.”

— Pope Francis

487. “I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be ‘protectors’ of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.”

— Pope Francis

488. “Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.”

— Pope Francis

489. “I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.”

— Pope Francis

490. “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.”

— Pope Francis

491. “In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness.”

— Pope Francis

492. “I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.”

— Pope Francis

493. “We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.”

— Pope Francis

494. “Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is of no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, the poor, the sick, in children.”

— Pope Francis

495. “Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.”

— Pope Francis

496. “That is why the center of our faith isn’t just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it’s about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.”

— Pope Francis

497. “Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.”

— Pope Francis

498. “How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.”

— Pope Francis

499. “The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.”

— Pope Francis

500. “Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as President, you won’t see another black president for generations! I think he has set a very low bar and I think it’s a shame for the African-American people.”

— Pope Francis