Pope Quotes - Page 3

• The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?

  Coluche

  Believe, Magic, Believe In God

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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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• If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.

  Avery Dulles

  Teaching, Exercise, Two

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• No pope ever condemned slavery.

  Joseph McCabe

  Slavery

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• Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

  Pope Francis

  Care, Want, Bless

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• I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes me pain and distress. So I can't really pay too much attention. When that encyclical from the Pope - the one about contraception - began 'Dear Sons and Brothers' I figured it must be private mail and had nothing to do with me. So I didn't read it.

  Joan Hackett

  Brother, Pain, Son

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• On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.

  Conan O'Brien

  Easter, Two, People

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• Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

  Charles Hodge

  Church, Earth, Christ

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.50

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  Carl Bernstein

  Beautiful, Crush, Girl

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• I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Enemy, President

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• What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

  Roger Ebert

  Fall, Responsibility, Age

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.657, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

  Dan Brown

  Toilets, Thrones, Realization

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.

  Maureen Johnson

  Long, Challenges, Criticism

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.41, Penguin

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• The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe, with the late Pope John Paul II, that God is preparing a new springtime for Christianity (cf. Redemptoris Missio, 86). What is needed above all, at this time in the history of the Church in America, is a renewal of that apostolic zeal which inspires her shepherds actively to seek out the lost, to bind up those who have been wounded, and to bring strength to those who are languishing (cf. Ez 34:16).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Believe, Cfs, America

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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• Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

  Michael Moore

  Dixie, Chicks, Dixie Chicks

  Michael Moore (2004). “Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Certain

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• All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed drinking - it is impossible to think of a person who enjoys drinking and not laughing. He enjoyed women - it is difficult to think of a man who enjoys women and not laughing. He was friendly, almost in love, with a prostitute, Mary Magdalene. It is difficult to move with a prostitute - he was not moving with a Catholic monk, not with a priest, not with the Pope... with a prostitute! These were the condemnations against him.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Real, Drinking

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• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  Irving Babbitt

  Order, Elements, Divine Will

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• We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

  Blaise Pascal

  Doctors, Matter, Moral

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Self, Rome

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• If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.

  James Peterson

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.

  Lord Acton

  Christian, Style, Religion

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• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

  Luigi Pirandello

  Kings, Woe, Mask

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.36, Luigi Pirandello

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• You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!

  Libba Bray

  Angel, Order, Firsts

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• To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Care, Honest

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