Pope Francis Quotes

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

War would end if the dead could return.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.