Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation... to see, to feel, to understand the beauty of what lies ahead,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society, even to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth...to give life is to open (our) heart, and to care… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“193. The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, “Then was then,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us. — 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
Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
