Pope Francis Quotes

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

People who are obsessed with Jesus live lives that connect them with the poor in some way or another. Obsessed people believe that Jesus talked about money and the poor so often because it was really important to Him.

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.

No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

I just love preaching.

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

I am no preacher of the old legal Sabbath. I am a preacher of the gospel. The Sabbath of the Jew is to him a task; the Lord's Day of the Christian, the first day of the week, is to him a joy, a day of rest, of peace, and of thanksgiving. And if you Christian men can earnestly drive away all distractions, so that you can really rest today, it will be good for your bodies, good for your souls, good mentally, good spiritually, good temporally, and good eternally.

The holiest of Christians, and those who understand best the gospel of Christ, find in themselves a constant inclination to look to the power of the creature, instead of looking to the power of God and the power of God alone.