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

— Pope Francis

452. “If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.”

— Pope Francis

453. “Let’s not be naive, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.”

— Pope Francis

454. “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

455. “The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time.”

— Pope Francis

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

— Pope Francis

457. “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

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

— Pope Francis

459. “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

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

— Pope Francis

461. “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

462. “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

463. “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

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

— Pope Francis

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

— Pope Francis

466. “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

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

— Pope Francis

468. “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

469. “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

470. “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

471. “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

472. “The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.”

— Pope Francis

473. “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

474. “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

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

— Pope Francis

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

— Pope Francis

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

— Pope Francis

478. “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

479. “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

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

— Pope Francis

481. “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

482. “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

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

— Pope Francis

484. “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

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

— Pope Francis

486. “To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.”

— Pope Francis

487. “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

488. “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

489. “Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.”

— Pope Francis

490. “It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.”

— Pope Francis

491. “God’s image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That’s God’s image.”

— Pope Francis

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

— Pope Francis

493. “And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?”

— Pope Francis

494. “And now I would like to give the blessing, but first – first I ask a favor of you: before the Bishop blesses his people, I ask you to pray to the Lord that he will bless me: the prayer of the people asking the blessing for their Bishop.”

— Pope Francis

495. “We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.”

— Pope Francis

496. “It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother’s womb.”

— Pope Francis

497. “Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.”

— Pope Francis

498. “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

499. “We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.”

— Pope Francis

500. “Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.”

— Pope Francis