Pope Francis Quotes

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Pope Francis

• Church
• Attitude

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Family
  • You
  • Church

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • You
  • Church
  • Act

• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • You
  • Church
  • New

• Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Father

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Me
  • Attitude

• When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Church
  • Grandmother

• Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Great
  • Church
  • Style

• I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Church
  • Feelings

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Church

• I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Today
  • Guy
  • Attitude

• We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

  

  Aleksander Kwasniewski
  • Done
  • History
  • Bad

• The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

  

  Matthew Henry
  • Peace
  • Church

• If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Water
  • Church
  • Communicates

• I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Disciplined
  • Synagogue
  • Unify

• For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Courage
  • Commitment

• Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Church
  • Attitude