Pope Quotes · Page 6

The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher'...Not that he…

— Fareed Zakaria

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

— Viggo Mortensen

[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.

— Sylvia Poggioli

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,

— Martin Bashir

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

— Tupac Shakur

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

— Brenda Fassie

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

— Viggo Mortensen

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

— Grover Cleveland

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to…

— Peter Ustinov

What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith.…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can…

— Pope Francis

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as…

— James Carville

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything…

— Andrew Schneider

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look…

— Erich Fromm

“It is most certainly not the function of the Holy See to introduce Church reforms. The first duty of the Pope is…

— Christopher A. Ferrara

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where…

— Michael Moore

Maybe Pope Francis will say something on his visit to the US, maybe he'll rebuke Donald Trump and anti-immigrant racism and demagoguery…

— Francisco Goldman

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The…

— George Edward Woodberry

The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put…

— Rush Limbaugh

With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah?…

— Shane MacGowan

A group of four cardinals wrote to [Pope] Francis accusing him of sowing confusion on important moral issues, and they asked for…

— Sylvia Poggioli

Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to…

— St. Catherine of Siena

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The next pope should be Portuguese, so he doesn't retire so early

— Anonymous

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.

— Brian Kilmeade

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

— John Henry Newman

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

— Oscar Wilde

I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president.

— Donald Trump

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

— George Carlin

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

— George Weigel

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

— Joseph Stalin

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

— Alexander Pope

Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

— Pope Gregory XVI

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

— Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

— Bill Williams

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

— Pope Paul VI

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

— Voltaire

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

— Pope Pius IX

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

— Chris Matthews