Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To follow Jesus means to share his merciful love for every human being. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Do I take the Gospel message of reconciliation and love into the places where I live and work? — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities. — Pope Francis Copy Share
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share
“Most people nowadays would not consider love as related in any way to truth. Love is seen as an experience associated with the world… — Pope Francis Copy Share
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable… — Pope Francis Copy Share
I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they… — Pope Francis Copy Share
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share
To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater… — Pope Francis Copy Share
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves. — Pope Francis Copy Share
I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their… — Pope Francis Copy Share
Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep — Pope Francis Copy Share
