Pope Quotes - Page 13

• Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

  Daniel Defoe

  Philosophy, Lying, Judging

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• We elected a President, not a Pope.

  Barbra Streisand

  President

  1998 Referring to Bill Clinton. To journalists at the White House, 5 Feb.

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• I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.

  Michael Servetus

  Eye, People, Shoulders

  "Michael Servetus - A Solitary Quest for the Truth". Awake! magazine, pp. 18-21, May 2006.

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• To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Compassion, Expansion, Events

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• It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

  Joy Bryant

  Talking, Issues, Political

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I've been happily married for 21 years. I don't even know what a condom is anymore.

  Tom Hanks

  Spiritual, Men, Years

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• Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

  N.D. Wilson

  Sorry, Plato, Philosophy

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• I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

  Raul Castro

  Church, Speech, Way

  "Castro: Pope Francis so impressive I might return to church". www.washingtonpost.com. May 10, 2015.

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• I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

  Charlie Rose

  Jobs, Two, Long

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• In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.

  Pope Sixtus V

  Keys, Paradise, May

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• As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.

  Jan Hus

  Common, Christ, Chairs

  Jan Hus (1915). “De Ecclesia: The Church”

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• In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Talking, Leader, Church

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• The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

  Pope Paul VI

  Moving, Mean, Shepherds

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• The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

  Pope Paul VI

  Doubt, Serious, Obstacles

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• Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II .Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?

  Chris Matthews

  Other Worlds, People, Mourning

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

  Chris Matthews

  Impact, Rome, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.

  Chris Matthews

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Mean, People

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

  Chris Matthews

  Spiritual, Voice, Leader

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Challenges, Catholic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

  Chris Matthews

  People, Earth, John Paul Ii

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

  Chris Matthews

  Catholic, Champion, Church

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to jump in the volcano. Pontiff, don't think of it as endorsing paganism, think of it as supersizing Ash Wednesday.

  Bill Maher

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Volcanoes

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• There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

  Rhodri Morgan

  Stitches, Next, Paisley

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• Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.

  Immortal Technique

  Father, Race, Rome

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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