Pope Quotes
294 Pope quotes by 219 unique authors
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
— Viggo Mortensen
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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that…
— Blaise Pascal
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.'…
— Pablo Picasso
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I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this.…
— Ricky Schroder
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The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
— Joseph Stalin
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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
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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around…
— Howard Stern
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I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
— Elaine Stritch
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The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive…
— George Edward Woodberry
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Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by…
— Regina Brett
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our…
— Graham Chapman
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
— Oscar Wilde
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The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope…
— Eduardo Galeano
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I would have made a good pope.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so…
— Jane Austen
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All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
— Rebecca Solnit
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In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
— Frank Herbert
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
— John Henry Newman
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If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human…
— Mark Morford
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When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he…
— Mark Morford
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In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.
— Laura Moriarty
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Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film,…
— Brennan Manning
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The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That…
— Ravi Zacharias
Who Wrote These Pope Quotes
219 authors contributed a total of 294 Pope Quotes, led by these top contributors: