Pope Francis World Quotations

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

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

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

It is by God’s mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

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!

How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don’t care; we don’t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.

May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.

And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!

The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world.

An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world

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

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

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

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.

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

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.

The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.

The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world.

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

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.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.

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

An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.

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.

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.

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

The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and 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

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.

Our world needs good and strong families.