Pope Francis Quotes

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

I am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.

I think of my life as a journey, and I'm still on it.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I always say it is not the arrival; it is the journey.

When you are a child, your father is God to you. Then, as you grow up, you have different gods. You change. But does it really matter? All of the roads lead to the same place, and if you are going in the right direction, it doesn't matter what you are taking - a jet plane or a cart pulled by a donkey.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.

Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.

So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.