Pope Francis Violence Quotations

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.

Violence and war lead only to death...

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

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.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.