Pope Francis Quotes

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

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.

As a young man, I was a navy officer in Vietnam. I made $320 a month and would always give away $50 a month to a family I felt that was in greater need than me, in addition to my tithing to my church. I've just always felt in my heart, coming from a very humble background, that there are plenty of people who need a break in life.

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

We are fortunate people. It is our need and responsibility to help our fellow man.

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

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Even if you don't have a lot, you can help someone.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

I always pull over for people who need a push.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.

Although there are people saying I'm putting on a show, I'm hoping more will emulate my 'performance.' If more people did, more needy people would get help.

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.

Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

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

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

… 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.