Pope Francis Quotes

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

I strongly believe in God. I go to church every Sunday, and if I happen to miss it, then I make up for the loss by going for it during the week. Whenever I spend time in the church, my mind is at peace.

That's the biggest part of going to church. You just learn how to hide your bad in front of people.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do.

I believe in the Bible, and I believe in Jesus. It's a big part of my life.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.