Pope Francis Quotes

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

Giving means extending one's love with no conditions, no expectations and no boundaries. . . Peace of minds occurs, therefore, when we put all our attention into giving and have no desire to get anything from, or to change, another person. . . The giving motivation leads to a sense of inner peace and joy that is unrelated to time.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.

Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.