Pope Francis Quotes

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

There can be nothing without love. No money, no power. Love is very important. When you wake up in the morning, you need to know that somebody else is waking up, thinking of you.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I really like women who get emotional about babies and puppies. I've met some incredibly cool women who are tough, but the woman you marry should have a really soft side.

I find it very easy to love because I grew up in such a loving family.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.