Pope Francis Quotes

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world (James 2:14-26).

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.

This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.

I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.