Pope Francis Quotes

I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.

I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

They taught me different was wrong.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

If you object that I discriminate, then I say to you, "You can organize your own club.

… a disgrace to the human race.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

That’s the trouble with inquisitors and censors. They become fascinated by what they deplore.

The arguments given by my predecessors in support of the ban on same sex marriage are the same arguments that were given to ban interracial marriage.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they also would need to go back to where they came from, because you need to go all the way back to the beginning.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.