Pope Quotes
294 quotes by 219 authors
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A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
— Samuel Johnson
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The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural…
— Kenny Smith
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I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino…
— Dick Gregory
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There…
— Oscar Wilde
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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…
— Dante Alighieri
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Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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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
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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…
— James Joyce
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Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way…
— Mary Blakely
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I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are…
— Geoffrey Fisher
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
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Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church…
— Peter Slipper
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Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of…
— J. Irwin Miller
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great…
— William Manchester
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge…
— Tobias Smollett
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I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be…
— Martin Luther
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Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers…
— Linus Torvalds
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Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church…
— Charles Hodge
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the…
— Carl Bernstein
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