Pope Francis Quotes

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.

I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Only sinners need saviors.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.