Pope Francis Quotes And Sayings

The Confessional Is Not A Torture Chamber, But The Place In Which The Lord's Mercy Motivates Us To Do Better.

A Christian Who Does Not Pray For Those Who Govern Is Not A Good Christian.

The Roman Curia Has Its Defects, But It Seems To Me That People Often Overemphasize Its Defects And Talk Too Little About The Health Of The Many Religious And Laypeople Who Work There.

Once Elected, The Pope Is By Virtue Of The Promise Of Jesus To Peter, The Pope Is Preserved From The Possibility Of Error. God Would Change Any Spend Thrift Politician Into A Responsible Pope.

Spiritual Worldliness Kills! It Kills The Soul! It Kills The Church!

Since God Created The World, He Also Created Reality.

In The Western Church To Which I Belong, Priests Cannot Be Married As In The Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian Or Greek Catholic Churches. In Those Churches, The Priests Can Be Married, But The Bishops Have To Be Celibate. They Are Very Good Priests.

The Pope Loves Everyone, Rich And Poor Alike, But The Pope Has The Duty, In Christ's Name, To Remind The Rich To Help The Poor, To Respect Them, To Promote Them.

Vanity, Showing Off, Is An Attitude That Reduces Spirituality To A Worldly Thing, Which Is The Worst Sin That Could Be Committed In The Church.

More And More People Work On Sundays As A Consequence Of The Competitiveness Imposed By A Consumer Society.

He Who Doesn't Pray To The Lord Prays To The Devil.

Christmas Is Joy, Religious Joy, An Inner Joy Of Light And Peace.

God Always Has Patience.

Let Us All Remember This: One Cannot Proclaim The Gospel Of Jesus Without The Tangible Witness Of One's Life.

If Investments In Banks Fall, It Is A Tragedy, And People Say, 'What Are We Going To Do?' But If People Die Of Hunger, Have Nothing To Eat Or Suffer From Poor Health, That's Nothing.

I See The Church As A Field Hospital After Battle. It Is Useless To Ask A Seriously Injured Person If He Has High Cholesterol And About The Level Of His Blood Sugars. You Have To Heal His Wounds. Then We Can Talk About Everything Else.

I Dream Of A Church That Is A Mother And Shepherdess.

I Entered The Diocesan Seminary. I Liked The Dominicans, And I Had Dominican Friends. But Then I Chose The Society Of Jesus, Which I Knew Well Because The Seminary Was Entrusted To The Jesuits. Three Things In Particular Struck Me About The Society: The Missionary Spirit, Community And Discipline.

The Church Is Or Should Go Back To Being A Community Of God's People, And Priests, Pastors And Bishops, Who Have The Care Of Souls, Are At The Service Of The People Of God.

I See Clearly That The Thing The Church Needs Most Today Is The Ability To Heal Wounds And To Warm The Hearts Of The Faithful; It Needs Nearness, Proximity.

Agape, The Love Of Each One Of Us For The Other, From The Closest To The Furthest, Is In Fact The Only Way That Jesus Has Given Us To Find The Way Of Salvation And Of The Beatitudes.

The Proclamation Of The Saving Love Of God Comes Before Moral And Religious Imperatives. Today Sometimes It Seems That The Opposite Order Is Prevailing.