Quotes from Pope Francis

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

We who are Christians, members of God's family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

War is not to be waged in the name of God.

God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.

Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!

Jesus is God but he humbled himself to walk with us. He is our friend, our brother.

The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil.

The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!

God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.

A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.