Top 500 Pope Francis Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God’s love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.”

— Pope Francis

402. “We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.”

— Pope Francis

403. “How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!”

— Pope Francis

404. “It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it’s normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!”

— Pope Francis

405. “Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.”

— Pope Francis

406. “Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!”

— Pope Francis

407. “The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil.”

— Pope Francis

408. “There are no part-time Christians.”

— Pope Francis

409. “We who are Christians, members of God’s family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them.”

— Pope Francis

410. “The Cross isn’t an ornament, mere symbol. It’s the mystery of God’s love, that He died for our sins.”

— Pope Francis

411. “Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.”

— Pope Francis

412. “The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts,...”

— Pope Francis

413. “We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don’t need young museums but we do need holy young people.”

— Pope Francis

414. “The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.”

— Pope Francis

415. “Work ends up dehumanizing people.”

— Pope Francis

416. “God always has patience.”

— Pope Francis

417. “There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.”

— Pope Francis

418. “Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.”

— Pope Francis

419. “Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.”

— Pope Francis

420. “Poverty is the center of the gospel.”

— Pope Francis

421. “Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.”

— Pope Francis

422. “Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.”

— Pope Francis

423. “In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty!”

— Pope Francis

424. “The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.”

— Pope Francis

425. “We just cannot worry about ourselves.”

— Pope Francis

426. “The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity’s deepest needs.”

— Pope Francis

427. “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.”

— Pope Francis

428. “Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.”

— Pope Francis

429. “We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.”

— Pope Francis

430. “May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth.”

— Pope Francis

431. “We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.”

— Pope Francis

432. “A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.”

— Pope Francis

433. “God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.”

— Pope Francis

434. “I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!”

— Pope Francis

435. “A society can be judged by the way it treats its children.”

— Pope Francis

436. “So many of you have lost everything. I don’t know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.”

— Pope Francis

437. “Who am I to judge a gay person?”

— Pope Francis

438. “The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.”

— Pope Francis

439. “One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one’s own religion, that is, in the name of God.”

— Pope Francis

440. “Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.”

— Pope Francis

441. “Spreading the Gospel means that we are the first to proclaim and live the reconciliation, forgiveness, peace, unity, and love that the Holy Spirit gives us.”

— Pope Francis

442. “We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults.”

— Pope Francis

443. “Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.”

— Pope Francis

444. “Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

— Pope Francis

445. “Faith grows when it is lived and shaped by Love.”

— Pope Francis

446. “Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!”

— Pope Francis

447. “Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that ’purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.”

— Pope Francis

448. “No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.”

— Pope Francis

449. “How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!”

— Pope Francis

450. “Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep.”

— Pope Francis