Pope Quotes - Page 3

• The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?

  Coluche

  Believe, Magic, Believe In God

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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 errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Religious, Kings, Ignorance

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• Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

  Lou Reed

  Religious, Religion, Rope

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.407, Da Capo Press

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• No pope ever condemned slavery.

  Joseph McCabe

  Slavery

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• Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

  Pope Francis

  Care, Want, Bless

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• On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.

  Conan O'Brien

  Easter, Two, People

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• I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes me pain and distress. So I can't really pay too much attention. When that encyclical from the Pope - the one about contraception - began 'Dear Sons and Brothers' I figured it must be private mail and had nothing to do with me. So I didn't read it.

  Joan Hackett

  Brother, Pain, Son

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  Carl Bernstein

  Beautiful, Crush, Girl

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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 on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

  Charles Hodge

  Church, Earth, Christ

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.50

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• Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.

  Catharine Macaulay

  Men, Law, Perfect

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• What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

  Jonathan Swift

  Friendship, Years, Age

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.764

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• Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

  Cleveland Amory

  Sports, Dog, Baby

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• The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Names, Catholic

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• A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive.

  Vivian Schiller

  Organization, Media, Perfect

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Mean, People, Work Out

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• Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Memories, Rome

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• Pope Francis seems to be a much nicer man than Pope Benedict, but I'm not sure that his views on things that really matter are all that different. Whereas Benedict was perhaps a wolf in wolf's clothing, Francis is perhaps a wolf in sheep's clothing.

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Sheep, Views

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your "liberators" are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"

  Wilhelm Reich

  Twenties, Liberators

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.

  Greg Benson

  Sleep, Hands, Drunk

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• It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’

  Jean Guitton

  Teaching, Blow, Humanity

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• I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

  James Carville

  Baseball, Thinking, Political

  "Ideas & Trends: The Bondholders Are Winning; Why America Won't Boom" by Louis Uchitelle, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 1994.

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• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.

  Auberon Waugh

  Issues, People, Political

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• [Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Dream, Kings, Europe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Christian, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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