Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor amon...
POPE FRANCIS Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or ...
POPE FRANCIS It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to...
POPE FRANCIS If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn'...
POPE FRANCIS When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by...
POPE FRANCIS I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J...
POPE FRANCIS An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's b...
POPE FRANCIS Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in whic...
POPE FRANCIS These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many ric...
POPE FRANCIS Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
POPE FRANCIS A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not...
POPE FRANCIS God always has patience.
POPE FRANCIS Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason...
POPE FRANCIS There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic ...
POPE FRANCIS Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom...
POPE FRANCIS God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christm...
POPE FRANCIS Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questio...
POPE FRANCIS Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they t...
POPE FRANCIS Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as...
POPE FRANCIS I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person i...
POPE FRANCIS Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth ...
POPE FRANCIS I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catho...
POPE FRANCIS I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but ha...
POPE FRANCIS If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so...
POPE FRANCIS The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us ...
POPE FRANCIS In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must ...
POPE FRANCIS The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics....
POPE FRANCIS Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true tha...
POPE FRANCIS My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accu...
POPE FRANCIS Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also...
POPE FRANCIS I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the fir...
POPE FRANCIS Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair eco...
POPE FRANCIS My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car,...
POPE FRANCIS Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience ha...
POPE FRANCIS A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with anot...
POPE FRANCIS A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more importa...
POPE FRANCIS This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscros...
POPE FRANCIS If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means t...
POPE FRANCIS Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your...
POPE FRANCIS Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it anot...
POPE FRANCIS Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, betwee...
POPE FRANCIS A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether ...
POPE FRANCIS I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even ...
POPE FRANCIS In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people...
POPE FRANCIS Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrina...
POPE FRANCIS I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I cho...
POPE FRANCIS Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtier...
POPE FRANCIS Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of on...
POPE FRANCIS This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked m...
POPE FRANCIS I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm t...
POPE FRANCIS First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn'...
POPE FRANCIS Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the on...
POPE FRANCIS Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
POPE FRANCIS We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more tha...
POPE FRANCIS Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal...
POPE FRANCIS Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most exc...
POPE FRANCIS Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit agains...
POPE FRANCIS We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine geniu...
POPE FRANCIS The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to ...
POPE FRANCIS Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
POPE FRANCIS In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers ...
POPE FRANCIS The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are b...
POPE FRANCIS St. Paul says that “the love of Christ compels us,” but this “compels us” can also be transl...
POPE FRANCIS Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To ...
POPE FRANCIS I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre....
POPE FRANCIS Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that ...
POPE FRANCIS Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, th...
POPE FRANCIS Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means statin...
POPE FRANCIS God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people...God...
POPE FRANCIS In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening ...
POPE FRANCIS He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.
POPE FRANCIS Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst...
POPE FRANCIS We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a chur...
POPE FRANCIS Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each ...
POPE FRANCIS You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a d...
POPE FRANCIS The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today somet...
POPE FRANCIS A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation ...
POPE FRANCIS I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.
POPE FRANCIS Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that'...
POPE FRANCIS Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each...
POPE FRANCIS More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer s...
POPE FRANCIS You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, w...
POPE FRANCIS Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the...
POPE FRANCIS There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It le...
POPE FRANCIS Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
POPE FRANCIS Let's think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is ...
POPE FRANCIS God's image is the married couple, a man and woman, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. ...
POPE FRANCIS If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
 FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
 FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
 FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
 FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
 FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
 FRANCIS The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ...
CARLY POPE I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
CARLY POPE I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's no...
CARLY POPE People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's...
CARLY POPE I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find t...
CARLY POPE But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE It doesn't bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can unde...
CASSADEE POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
ALEXANDER POPE Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE