Pope Francis Quotes

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them.

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

The church must always show compassion, always.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I'm a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you're supposed to be doing.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.

Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian.

Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!