Quotes from Pope Francis

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!

Be men and women with others and for others: true champions at the service of others.

I want to say one word to you and this word is "Joy". Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman.

God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.

This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life…The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love…Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.