Pope Quotes · Page 6

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

— Desmond Tutu

The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

— David Novak

Walking into the Ryman with Lester Flatt was the equivalent of walking into the Vatican with the pope.

— Marty Stuart

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

— Adoniram Judson Gordon

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

— Sylvester Stallone

I totally respect the pope, and I totally respect the Catholic bishops and cardinals on doctrine.

— Steve Bannon

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that…

— Oriana Fallaci

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

— Farah Diba

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius…

— Kelsey Grammer

The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay…

— Maureen Johnson

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had…

— Martin Luther

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to…

— David McCullough

It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a…

— Ralph Martin

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth…

— P. J. O'Rourke

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to…

— Frank Capra

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives.…

— Ben Affleck

“For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with…

— nwaocha ogechukwu

Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of…

— John Shelby Spong

“I want to highlight the spirit of Pope Francis. Elected to the papacy following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis (Jose…

— Ilia Delio

We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the…

— Jacques Ellul

Yesterday, the White House confirmed that President Obama will meet with Pope Francis during his visit in September. Some experts are wondering…

— Jimmy Fallon

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,…

— H. L. Mencken

Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must…

— Pope Francis

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,…

— Billy Collins

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

— Lord Byron

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

— William Tyndale

I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ.

— George Harrison

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

— George Bernard Shaw

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 fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

— Willa Cather

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

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

— Martin Bashir

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

— Sylvia Poggioli

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

— Viggo Mortensen

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

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Oscar Wilde