Pope Francis Quotes

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Advocacy is a faith commitment to be part of God's plan for a just world - a world where each person's dignity and worth is valued. A world where everyone has a say in decisions that affect their lives.

There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.

Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

Poor man. Poor mankind.

Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.

We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us.

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.