Quotes from Pope Francis

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus.

Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.