1,477 Quotes by Pope Francis

A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.

They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.

Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.