Essentials Quote by Pope Francis

“It is important to have friends we can trust. But it is essential to trust the Lord, who never lets us down.”

Pope Francis

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Essentials Friendship Important Inspirational Lord Trust

More by Pope Francis

God reveals Himself through surprises.

Pope Francis

Image

God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.

Pope Francis

Image

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

Pope Francis

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 of fleeting emotions, no longer with truth. But is this an adequate description of love? Love cannot be reduced to an ephemeral emotion. True, it engages our affectivity, but in order to open it to the…

Pope Francis

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

Image

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

Pope Francis

Image

Proceed calmly in life.

Pope Francis

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

Image

You cannot insult the faith of others.

Pope Francis

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 us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without…

Pope Francis

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

Image

In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.

Pope Francis

Image

Explore all 1,479 Pope Francis quotes

More Essentials quotes

Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at…

Donna Freitas

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

Marc Bloch

Image

Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a…

Fred Rogers

Image

Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this…

Kehinde Wiley

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous,…

Lord Chesterfield

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

Seth Godin

Image

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

John Dickinson

Image

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

Jean Piaget

Image

They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the…

Marsden Hartley

Image

Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and…

Dallin H. Oaks