Pope Francis Quotes

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Your situation may look impossible, but don't ever rule out the favor of God.

When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.

When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail.

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles.

I would say that God is much bigger than all of this. I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter. Through the hardest times in life, I hope people turn to him and realize he's still a sovereign God; he's in control.

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

Instead of telling God how big your problems are, tell your problem how BIG your God is.

Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.