Pope Quotes - Page 23

• I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.

  Carlos Celdran

  Want, Faces, Pulpit

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• [The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Kings, Believe, Religion

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 24, 1721.

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• The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

  Aga Khan IV

  Spiritual, Welfare, Flocks

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• Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.

  Ken MacLeod

  Country, Kings, Children

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• Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

  Michael Novak

  Character, Years, Gdp

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• But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Hands, Long, Gone

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• General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Patriotic, Sound

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• A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

  David Hume

  Writing, Tables, London

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.634, Delphi Classics

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• If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Campbell, Wordsworth and Southey. Now Ellen don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare, and Byron. Both these were great Men and their works are like themselves, You will know how to chuse the good and avoid the evil, the finest
  passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting you will never wish to read them over twice.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Names, Evil

  "Charlotte Bronte: Selected Letters". Book edited by Margaret Smith and Janet Gezari, September 9, 2010.

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• Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Men, Style

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what Pope Francis thinks for the common good... we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending.

  Pope Francis

  Freedom, Thinking, Rights

  "After Paris attacks, Pope speaks out against insulting religions" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. January 15, 2015.

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• Now Pope Francis on his overnight flight back to Italy explains how contraception can be justified. This is the pope, the Vicar of Christ, the Catholic Church explaining how contraception could be justified. And then he rips into capitalism and the American immigration policies while at the Mexican border before getting on his plane to go back to Italy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rip, Mexican Border, Catholic

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Book, Biblical

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Discussions”

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• Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sister, Brother, Humble

  Remarks from balcony at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 19 Apr. 2005

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• There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Poetry, Way

  "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

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• I would have made a good pope.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Witty, Humorous, Profound

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• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Book, Heart

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• We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience the return of the Word of God in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual, living, indisputable Word of God that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the Bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the Word of God and God Himself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Bible, Biblical, Thinking

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• Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

  Martin Luther

  Safe, Scripture, Helping

  1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

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• I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Albums

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

  Pope John Paul I

  Religious, Religion, One Day

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• I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

  William Tyndale

  Boys, Scripture, Causes

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• Pope Francis announced that next year he is coming to the United States, or as Fox News is reporting it, 'Obama lets in yet another guy from South America.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, America, Guy

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• For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

  William Tyndale

  What Matters, Names, Bishops

  William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal treatises and introductions to different portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.135

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• I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: "You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Humble, Boss

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.28, Lulu.com

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