Pope Francis Quotes

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

You pray for your enemies.

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.

Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.