Pope Francis Quotes

This Christianity is not a cultural thing. It is not something that should be just a small part of your life; it is not something that you do on Sunday... Christianity is not about you being just like the world all the time and then coming to church on Sunday. If that is your Christianity... you are not Christian.

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

There are no part-time Christians.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

Christ came not to possess our brains with some cold opinions, that send down a freezing and benumbing influence into our hearts. Christ was a master of the life, not of the school; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven, not he whose head spins the finest cobweb.

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him.

Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!