Pope Quotes - Page 8

• [Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

  John I. Jenkins

  Expression, Catholic, Important

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• [Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

  George Weigel

  Jesus, Prayer, Speak

  Source: eppc.org

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• Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on knowing whether what you're happy about, on unhappy about, has a basis in fact, or is merely a reflection of the "narrative.

  George Weigel

  Loyalty, Reflection, Knowing

  Source: eppc.org

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• The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

  George Weigel

  Jobs, Catholic, Impossible

  Source: eppc.org

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• Pope Francis seems to be a much nicer man than Pope Benedict, but I'm not sure that his views on things that really matter are all that different. Whereas Benedict was perhaps a wolf in wolf's clothing, Francis is perhaps a wolf in sheep's clothing.

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Sheep, Views

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Christian, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Texas, Migrants, United States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called.

  George Weigel

  Catholic, Affront, Disloyalty

  Source: eppc.org

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• Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would really change in any fundamental way.He was a tragic figure, for he raised a false hope, cast a brief ray of light that was snuffed out when he died.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Sea, Light

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• Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  Mike Ferguson

  Spiritual, Powerful, Leader

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• No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Men, May

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.54, Penguin

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• No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Kings, Power, Media

  "Presidential Television: A Twentieth Century Fund report". Book by Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin and Lee M. Mitchell, 1973.

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• I am at best on the C list for Pope.

  Pope John Paul I

  Lists

  "In God's Name". Book by David Yallop, ch. 2 : The Empty Throne, 1984.

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• We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Feet, Would Be, World

  W. V. QUINE, Willard Van Orman Quine (1987). “Quiddities”, p.231, Harvard University Press

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• There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Kings, Adversity, Men

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

  James Joyce

  Funny, Humorous, Silly

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• Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929. Under the terms of this deal, Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy, with monopoly powers over matters such as birth, marriage, death, and education, and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described II Duce (“the leader”) as “a man sent by providence.”

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Men, Europe

  "God Is Not Great".

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• If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.

  Pope Francis

  Stars, Sleep, Men

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• The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, but above all we see this in mankind Man is not in charge today, money is in charge, money rules. God our Father did not give the task of caring for the earth to money, but to us, to men and women: we have this task! Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.'

  Pope Francis

  Father, Caring, Men

  "Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

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• When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Names

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• Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Rocks, Principles

  Pat Robertson (1995). “The Turning Tide”, W Publishing Group

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• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Bills, Computer

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• I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

  Angelo Scola

  Responsibility, Campaigns, Huge

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• Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not yet. Assuming by Christianity you mean the Christian understanding of the world and God, Christian opinions on soul, text, and culture I'd have to say that we probably have a couple of things right, but a lot of things wrong, and even more spreads before us unseen and unimagined. But at least our eyes are open! To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Wall, Couple

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• The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field.

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Years, People

  "Steve Spurrier quit after Gamecocks started 'going south'", www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2015.

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