Pope Francis Quotes

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

The key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Clear.

Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I don't really know many people there, but my real community is my small group.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

As Christians we’re called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ’s family and be members of his body.

Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.