Pope Francis Quotes About Security

• I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Dirty, Church

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.132, SPCK

• Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Style, Fasting

• The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

  Pope Francis

  People, Bears, Doe

• If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.

  Pope Francis

  Opportunity, Giving, Use

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

• More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: 'Give them something to eat.'

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Doors, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.18, BookBaby

• Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Children, Doors

• Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

  Pope Francis

  Past, Views, Long

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.99, A&C Black

• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Violence, Exclusion, Today

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.22, BookBaby

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