Quotes By Pope Francis

Missionary spirit is not only about geographical territories, but about peoples, cultures and individuals, because the "boundaries" of faith do not only cross places and human traditions, but the heart of each man and each woman.

I invite you to immerse yourself in the joy of the Gospel and nurture a love that can light up your vocation and your mission.

Mission is a passion for Jesus and at the same time a passion for his people.

Faith in Jesus Christ helps one to joyfully live life "on wings of hope."

Humanity is called to take note of the need for changes in lifestyle and changes in methods of production and consumption to combat this warming, or at least the human causes that produce and accentuate it.

The attitudes that stand in the way of a solution [to climate change], even among believers, range from negation of the problem, to indifference, to convenient resignation or blind faith in technical solutions.

The Earth is protesting for the wrong that we are doing to her, because of the irresponsible use and abuse of the goods that God has placed on her. We have grown up thinking that we were her owners and dominators, authorised to loot her. The violence that exists in the human heart, wounded by sin, is also manifest in the symptoms of illness that we see in the Earth, the water, the air and in living things.

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor, so that they are not abandoned to the laws of an economy that seems at times to treat people as mere consumers.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities.

I think so-called unrestrained [economic] liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded. We need great freedom, no discrimination, no demagoguery and a lot of love. We need rules of conduct and also, if necessary, direct intervention from the state to correct the more intolerable inequalities.

It is increasingly intolerable that financial markets are shaping the destiny of people rather than serving their needs, or that the few derive immense wealth from financial speculation while the many are deeply burdened by the consequences.

We cannot allow the Mediterranean Sea to become a vast cemetery.

The 'big bang,' that today is considered to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the creative intervention of God, on the contrary it requires it.

The internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

The digital world can be an environment rich in humanity. A network not of wires but of people.

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.

Love is the greatest power for the transformation of reality because it pulls down the walls of selfishness and fills the ditches that keep us apart.

The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.