Quotes from Pope Francis

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

Jesus did not say: 'One of you go', but 'All of you go': we are sent together.

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

If we are truly in love with Christ and if we sense how much he loves us, our heart will 'light up' with a joy that spreads to everyone around us.

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

Today too, as at her origins, the Church... cries out:"Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love!" Amen.

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.