Pope Francis Quotes

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

Be good. Do something good.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

A good deed is the best prayer.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.