Pope Quotes
294 quotes by 228 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
— George Carlin
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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
— Willa Cather
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Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
— Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
— Arianna Huffington
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It's too early for a Polish pope.
— Pope John Paul II
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Rajneesh
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