Pope Francis Quotes About Suffering

• Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Evil, Suffering

• This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda. Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the face of this natural disaster, and so many others.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Loss, People

• Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Respect, Peace, Pain

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 27, 2015.

• True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

  Pope Francis

  True Love, Evil, Suffering

• Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

  Pope Francis

  Sick, Suffering, Helping

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

• How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

  Pope Francis

  Children, People, Suffering

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

• Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

  Pope Francis

  People, Suffering, Lack Of Love

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

• Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

  Pope Francis

  Touching, Suffering, Trying

• There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

  Pope Francis

  Suffering, Overcoming, Charity

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 20, 2014.

• The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

  Pope Francis

  Suffering, Church, Draws

• Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

  Pope Francis

  Suffering, Frailty, Conversion

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. March 24, 2015.

• If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

  Pope Francis

  Suffering, Needs, Poverty

• Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Suffering, World

• In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg the Lord to accompany us are the most useful

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Accompany Us, Suffering

• I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

  Pope Francis

  Iraq, Suffering, Praying

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. September 5, 2014.

• We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  "Pope Francis Against Rome". www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2013.

• We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

  Pope Francis

  People, Suffering, Doe

• If you don’t learn how to cry, you cannot be a good Christian. When they posed this question to us – why children suffer, why this or that tragedy occurs in life – our response must be either silence or a word that is born of our tears. Be courageous, don’t be afraid to cry.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Children, Silence

• The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

  Pope Francis

  Marijuana, Suffering And Death, Drug

• In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Suffering, Helping

• Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. To those who suffer, God does not provide arguments which explain everything; rather, his response is that of an accompanying presence, a history of goodness which touches every story of suffering and opens up a ray of light.

  Pope Francis

  Night, Journey, Light

  Pope Francis (2016). “I Believe: The Promise of the Creed”, p.114, Orbis Books

• This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

  Pope Francis

  Food, Suffering, Culture

• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Blessing, Volunteer

• 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

• Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood. In the face of this shameful and culpable silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade.

  Pope Francis

  Blood, Silence, Suffering

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

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