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Religion Quotes by Pope John Paul II
- Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of…
- If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
- Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.
- The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
- The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind…
- We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some…
- Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
- The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner…
- You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest…
- The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi