Quotes from Pope Francis

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Do not be afraid! Our Father is patient, he loves us, he gives us Jesus to guide us on the way which leads to the promised land. Jesus is the light who brightens the darkness. He is our peace.

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it's normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!

Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

Peace is the language we must speak.

Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.

We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.