Pope Francis Quotes

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never.

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.

The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

God never tires of forgiving us.

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.