Pope Francis Quotes

When every court was saying 'no,' I believe God was still saying yes. I had to somehow find that faith and reach deep down in my soul and believe in the teaching that my mother taught me as a young boy, that God can do everything but fail.

You're always trying to feel confident and to feel good about yourself, but what it comes down to is really giving up to someone else. Having faith.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.

No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.

Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.

God will give you no more than you can handle.

As long as our heart's beating, there's a chance for us, or whoever that person is in our life, and I don't know how the story turns out, but I do know that no one is out of the reach of God, and that anybody's capable of change.

Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.

I never lost my faith.