Pope Francis Quotes

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.