Pope Francis Quotes

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.

Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.

Blessed are those that nought expect, for they shall not be disappointed.

I have a faith that's unbendable as far as my Lord and Savior is concerned.

I went through a couple of years there just mad at the world. I put my faith in the world and the world let me down. And I should have known that. The world's always going to let you down. Put your faith in God.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."

All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.

Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.