Pope Francis Quotes

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.

It's easy to love people who love you.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.