Pope Francis Quotes About Violence

• Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Iraq, Generosity

• We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Evil, Faces

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

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  Christian, And Love, Violence

  "Pope Francis: ‘Faith And Violence Are Incompatible", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2013.

• Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

  Pope Francis

  People, Violence, Maintaining

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.182

• To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

  Pope Francis

  Tyrants, Congress And The President, Hatred

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

• 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

• Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Pain, War

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.24, Loyola Press

• Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service of others and which fosters lawfulness and the common good. When a person discovers God, the true treasure, he abandons a selfish lifestyle and seeks to share with others the charity which comes from God. He who becomes a friend of God, loves his brothers and sisters, commits himself to safeguarding their life and their health, and also to respecting the environment and nature.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Selfish, Mean

• No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.

  Pope Francis

  Names, Use, Violence

• ...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire consequences. Certain pathologies are increasing, with their psychological consequences; fear and desperation grip the hearts of many people, even in the so-called rich countries; the joy of life is diminishing; indecency and violence are on the rise; poverty is becoming more and more evident. People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Struggle, Heart

• I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy... this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law... and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics!

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Girlfriend, Islamic

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

• If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

  Pope Francis

  Islamic, Catholic, Violence

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

• I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Islam, Violence

  Pope Francis’ In-Flight Press Conference from Poland, www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

• For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, War, Sake

• 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

• Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

  Pope Francis

  Violence, Planning, Oppression

• A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Names, Evil

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

• Violence and war lead only to death.

  Pope Francis

  War, Violence And War, Violence

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.24, Loyola Press

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