Pope Quotes - Page 2

• The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

  Voltaire

  Hands, Idols, Feet

  Voltaire (2016). “ZADIG - The Book of Faith (Illustrated): Historical Novel – A Story from Ancient Babylonia”, p.182, e-artnow

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• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  Camille Flammarion

  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.

  Sam Harris

  Men, Religion, Bishops

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

  Dorothy Day

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

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• Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Money, Giving

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press

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• I happen to be catholic, and I heard that the pope was asking that we abolish the death penalty and I would have to respectfully disagree with him. As many murders as I've had to deal with in my career, watching and dealing with the victim's families throughout the beginning of the incident all the way until today. There are a lot of folks that feel that they didn't have the justice that was due to them.

  John Cabello

  Justice, Catholic, Today

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.

  Martin Luther

  Blessing, Hatred, May

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• I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

  Dan Simmons

  Giving, Despair, President

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.15, Macmillan

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• There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

  Oscar Wilde

  Government, Soul And Body, People

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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• An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong."

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rome, Differences, Church

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• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Indulge In, Style, Television

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• Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Two, Crowns, Guilty

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• Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Moving, Self, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “Lives”, p.531

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• To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision.

  James Randi

  Laughter, Book, Character

  Skeptic Magazine, Volume 3, No. 4, 1995.

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• Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

  Martin Luther

  Obedience, Antichrist

  "The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers" by LeRoy Edwin Froom, Vol. 2, (p. 121), 1950.

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• Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Errors, Promise

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• And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Religious, Jesus, Enemy

  Thomas Cranmer (1833). “Remains”, p.140

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• Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

  Lou Reed

  Religious, Religion, Rope

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.407, Da Capo Press

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• Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Religious, Kings, Ignorance

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• God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Different, Made

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• I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Cutting, Opportunity

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• I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Numbers

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• As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

  Ezra Cornell

  Country, Religious, Party

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• I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Catholic, Purpose, Trouble

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• The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.

  John Foxe

  Venice, Years, Matter

  John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers

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