Pope Francis Quotes

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Where the Spirit is, there is liberty.

I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.

Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us.

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would immediately facilitate mastering the ability to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Nor do I believe that the Lord will ever allow someone to conceive a pattern that would invariably and immediately open the channels of spiritual communication. We grow when we labor to recognize the guidance of the Holy Ghost as we struggle to communicate our needs to our Father in Heaven in moments of dire need or overflowing gratitude.

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don't believe that.

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

We walk by faith, not by sight.

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.