Quotes from Pope Francis

Money has to serve, not to rule.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!

Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you

Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.

May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy.

Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.