Pope Francis Quotes

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

Jesus came to save us, not just from politics, enemies, challenges, or difficulties.

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.

Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!

It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.

Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.

Christ will rise on Easter day!

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.