Pope Francis Love Quotations

I'm the type of human who is interested most in the truth. God gave me a healthy love for the truth.

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor ; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

When everything falls apart, only one thing sustains our hope: God loves us, he loves everyone!

God’s love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today, especially of God's love. God loved us, he loved us with such great love. I am thinking of what St Ignatius told us.... He pointed out two criteria on love. The first: love is expressed more clearly in actions than in words. The second: there is greater love in giving than in receiving.

A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an unimaginable point. We could never have imagined that the same Lord would become one of us and walk with us, be present with us, present in His Church, present in the Eucharist, present in His Word, present in the poor, He is present, walking with us. And this is closeness: the shepherd close to his flock, close to his sheep, whom he knows, one by one.

"God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life.

For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world

This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to love Him! The best way to love Him in return is to open our hearts and let Him love us. Let Him draw close to us and feel Him close to us. This is really very difficult: letting ourselves be loved by Him. And that is perhaps what we need to ask today in the Mass: 'Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of letting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness ! May the Lord give us this grace.

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say "Yes" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.

It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb.

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father’s tenderness and love towards each of us.

God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.

The challenge of life is to learn how to love

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

Do I take the Gospel message of reconciliation and love into the places where I live and work?

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!

God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.

The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

We are all called to be friends with Jesus. Don’t be afraid to love the Lord.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

Everyone say to himself: 'When was the last time I went to confession?' And if it has been a long time, don't lose another day! Go, the priest will be good. And Jesus, (will be) there, and Jesus is better than the priests - Jesus receives you. He will receive you with so much love! Be courageous, and go to confession,