Pope Francis Quotes About Jesus Christ

• Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Essentials, Christ

• Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

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  Inspiring, Christian, Wise

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.77, Loyola Press

• I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

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  Teacher, Jesus, Father

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 01, 2013.

• If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Able, Messages

• The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.

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  Jesus, Important, Christ

• The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Names, Faces

• True peace is not a balance of opposing forces, and it is not ‘a lovely façade’ simply covering conflicts and divisions. Rather, peace calls for daily commitment -- it's homemade -- starting from God's gift, from the grace which he has given us in Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Commitment, Grace

• That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

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  Jesus, Book, Flesh

• Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

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  Jesus, Children, Pro Life

  "Pope Francis denounces abortion after decrying church's focus on rules". www.cbsnews.com. September 20, 2013.

• I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Gold, Silver

  "First Latin American Pope makes first overseas visit to Brazil". www.abc.net.au. July 23, 2013.

• Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

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  Christian, Jesus, Truth Is

  "Pope Francis’ Atheist Letter Says ‘God’s Mercy Has No Limits’" by Alessandro Speciale, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2013.

• It is the Paraclete Spirit, the "Comforter", who grants us the courage to take to the streets of the world, bringing the Gospel! The Holy Spirit makes us look to the horizon and drive us to the very outskirts of existence in order to proclaim life in Jesus Christ. Let us ask ourselves: do we tend to stay closed in on ourselves, on our group, or do we let the Holy Spirit open us to mission?

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  Jesus, Order, Groups

• We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn't matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn't be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.

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  Jesus, Church, Want

• The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

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  Jesus, Important, Firsts

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.54, A&C Black

• In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. To be magnanimous with interior liberty and a spirit of service, spiritual formation is necessary. Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus Christ ever more!

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Children

  Pope Francis during meeting with Students of Jesuit Schools, zenit.org. June 7, 2013.

• When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.

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  Jesus, Evil, Doe

  Pope Francis' Homily at Sistine Chapel, w2.vatican.va. March 14, 2013.

• I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their sufferings in fellowship with Jesus Christ and to support all those who care for them. To all the ill, and to all the health-care workers and volunteers who assist them, I cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing.

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  Jesus, Blessing, Volunteer

• When exhaling this air, we announced Jesus Christ risen by the same Spirit. No one can live without breathing. It is the same for the Christian: without praise and mission there is not Christian life. And with praise, worship. We rarely speak about worship. What do we do when we pray? We ask things of God, we give thanks. But worshipping and adoring God is part of breathing - praise and worship.

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  Christian, Jesus, Air

• We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.

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  Christian, Jesus, Moon

• Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed by three commands: feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

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  Jesus, Exercise, Sheep

  Pope Francis' Homily for inaugural Mass of Petrine Ministry, w2.vatican.va. March 19, 2013.

• All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.

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  Christian, Jesus, Encounters

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.185

• I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle... The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

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  Jesus, Heart, Faithful

  Interview with Antonio Spadaro, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2013.

• All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.

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  Jesus, Heart, Expression

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.15, BookBaby

• I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

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  Jesus, Literary Genre, Speech

• I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them.

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  Christian, Jesus, Encounters

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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