Pope Francis Quotes About Reconciliation

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

  Pope Francis

  And Love, Messages, Reconciliation

• In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

  Pope Francis

  Silence, Weapons, Language

• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Desire, Overcoming, May

• To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Celebrate, Embrace

• Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, War

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

  Pope Francis

  Middle East, World, Beloved

  "Pope Leads Prayer Vigil For Peace In Syria". www.npr.org. September 8, 2013.

• How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There, we can see God’s reply: violence is not answered with violence, death is not answered with the language of death. In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue, and peace is spoken.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Silence, Wish

• The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Our World, Justice

• We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Encounters

  Francis, Pope (2017). “With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards”, p.70, Orbis Books

• May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

  Pope Francis

  Strength, Peace, Children

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