Pope Francis

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.