Pope Francis Quotes

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.