Pope Quotes

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent.

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.

I think [Pope] Francis intends to forge ahead with his reform agenda.

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.

I'm focused on this election, I am going full time for Senator Obama. But I never rule anything out. Everyday is a new opportunity. I would like to be Pope if I could.

The Pope is not putting himself out on a limb, he's putting himself up on the Cross, and that's what he's called to do.

No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I've been happily married for 21 years. I don't even know what a condom is anymore.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ.

We can get angry: it's even healthy to get angry from time to time.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be, ' restored the status quo.

As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.

If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.

I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.

The priest must teach the people, the fear of God.

The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Prayer isn’t about repeating rituals

God never tires of forgiving us

Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...

When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do, " the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is, " said Pope Clement.

Great wits are to madness near alliedAnd thin partitions do their bounds divide.

I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel.