Diabolical Quote by Pope Benedict XVI Download Open image “When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.” — Pope Benedict XVI ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diabolical Divine Inspirational Political Politician Politics
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family — Andy Zaltzman Copy Share Image
The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per… — Jim Wright Copy Share
I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Joseph Ratzinger never developed his own theological system. As a theologian he took on what was there, discerned its essentials, situated it in relation… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous. — Ken Green Copy Share Image
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image