Pope Quotes

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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
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own… — Pope Benedict XVI
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of… — Pope Benedict XVI
If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has… — Pope Benedict XVI
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. — George Carlin
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. — Willa Cather
Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X — Tupac Shakur
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… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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… — Jacques Ellul
Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband. — Arianna Huffington
It's too early for a Polish pope. — Pope John Paul II
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his… — Abraham Lincoln
If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a… — Bill Maher
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility… — Ammon Hennacy
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will… — Pope John Paul II
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… — Rajneesh

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