Pope Francis Quotes

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

Your soul is between you and God.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

One cannot remember mother and forget God.

When we attempt to isolate another we only isolate ourselves. We are all God's children and there are no favorites. God is revealed to all who seek; God speaks to all who will listen. Be still and know God.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

I do a little sign on the court every time i make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky - it symbolizes that i have a heart for God. It’s something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time I step on the floor as a reminder of who i’m playing for.

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.