Pope Francis Quotes

For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.

I believe every human life is a gift from God and we should cherish and protect and celebrate them.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I firmly believe in the sanctity of life.

I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.

Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.

All human life is precious.

As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to feel the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and the support that will help them always to embrace life?

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has a responsibility to defend the vulnerable and the weak. And I believe our nation should set a goal that unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb.