Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When the Lord wants to give us a mission, wants to give us a task, He prepares us. He prepares us to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to go against the current, when they want to steal our hope, when they propose rotten values to us,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
... the Christian is a person who remembers: ... He continually says to the Lord: 'Yes, I want the commandments, I want… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think we too are the people who, on the one hand, want to listen to Jesus, but on the other hand,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many… — 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… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If God, in the Christmas mystery, reveals himself not as One who remains on high and dominates the universe, but as the… — 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
This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to… — 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
![“In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't care to "make-up" his answer, he said exactly the same thing [that we needed to clean up the dirt of the Church]. He was the brave one who helped so many open…” quote by Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5d/pope-francis-85_answers_in-the-pro-eligendo-pontefice-mass-despi_2274461.jpg)
![“I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants.” quote by Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/971/pope-francis-85_being-true_i-asked-guadalupe-for-the-world-for-peac_1651249.jpg)
