Pope Francis
A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a ChristianCollection: Christian
Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.Collection: Persons
The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.Collection: People
Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?Collection: Understood
There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishnessCollection: God
The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'?Collection: Heart
Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.Collection: Sick
Peace is the language we must speak.Collection: Language
We need courage if we are to be faithful to the Gospel.Collection: Faithful
Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.Collection: Brother
Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up.Collection: Giving Up
One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.Collection: Fun
The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.Collection: Christian
We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.Collection: Christ
Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.Collection: Things In Life
Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.Collection: Humanity
Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.Collection: Jesus
An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.Collection: Desire
Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.Collection: Men
Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.Collection: Doe
The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.Collection: World
Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.Collection: Men
The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.Collection: Fall
I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.Collection: Responsibility
Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.Collection: Powerful
Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.Collection: Pain
In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.Collection: Way
Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say "Yes" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.Collection: Inspirational
Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.Collection: Thinking
We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.Collection: People
We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre (of an economic system) as God wants, not money. The world has become an idolator of this god called money. To defend this economic culture, a throwaway culture has been installed. We throw away grandparents, and we throw away young people. We have to say no to his throwaway culture. We want a just system that helps everyone.Collection: Men
We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.Collection: Generations
The growth of equality… calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor, which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality.Collection: Simple
Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.Collection: Humanity
It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car is necessary to do a lot of work, but please, choose a more humble one. If you like the fancy one, just think about how many children are dying of hunger in the world.Collection: Hurt
More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: 'Give them something to eat.'Collection: Jesus
God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.Collection: Strength
If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
Only those who serve with love are able to protect!Collection: Able
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Giving
The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good.Collection: Imbalance
The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.Collection: Jesus
If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.Collection: Jesus
Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out?Collection: Jesus
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.Collection: Christian
Please do not lose the ability to dreamCollection: Dream
The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.Collection: Heart
I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!Collection: Creative