Best 88 quotes in «pope quotes» category

God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.

I can't stay mad at Pope Frank. I just can't. It's a funny situation that I like the pope and Mel Gibson doesn't.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.

If all the priests go we all want to be married and the pope goes all priests should be married than I say go for it.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.

[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the pope.

It seems from Pope Francis, immigrants, anybody who doesn't live here in America, has an automatic right to come here just because there's no other place like it on earth. And what is never discussed is how it got so special. How did it happen? Why is it so prosperous? Why is it so free?

I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump. OK? And I was like, the pope is talking about me? This can't be happening. And then I said, is it good or bad? They said it's bad.

Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don’t know how to resolve this … I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart.

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

Pope actually said that maybe I'm not a good Christian or something. It's unbelievable. Which is really not a nice thing to say.

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

Pope John Paul didn't die - he pre-boarded.

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

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

Pope is questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it. But I am a Christian, and I'm proud of it.

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

The Pope also said that while he's in town he would like to go see 'The Book of Mormon.'

The Pope is guarded by the Swiss guard who stand proudly in pajamas and silly hats.

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

There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons they give are various, but the ultimate justification for most religious people’s beliefs is a simple one: we believe what we believe because our holy scriptures say so. But how, then, do we know that our holy scriptures are factually accurate? Because the scriptures themselves say so. Theologians specialize in weaving elaborate webs of verbiage to avoid saying anything quite so bluntly, but this gem of circular reasoning really is the epistemological bottom line on which all 'faith' is grounded. In the words of Pope John Paul II: 'By the authority of his absolute transcendence, God who makes himself known is also the source of the credibility of what he reveals.' It goes without saying that this begs the question of whether the texts at issue really were authored or inspired by God, and on what grounds one knows this. 'Faith' is not in fact a rejection of reason, but simply a lazy acceptance of bad reasons. 'Faith' is the pseudo-justification that some people trot out when they want to make claims without the necessary evidence. But of course we never apply these lax standards of evidence to the claims made in the other fellow’s holy scriptures: when it comes to religions other than one’s own, religious people are as rational as everyone else. Only our own religion, whatever it may be, seems to merit some special dispensation from the general standards of evidence. And here, it seems to me, is the crux of the conflict between religion and science. Not the religious rejection of specific scientific theories (be it heliocentrism in the 17th century or evolutionary biology today); over time most religions do find some way to make peace with well-established science. Rather, the scientific worldview and the religious worldview come into conflict over a far more fundamental question: namely, what constitutes evidence. Science relies on publicly reproducible sense experience (that is, experiments and observations) combined with rational reflection on those empirical observations. Religious people acknowledge the validity of that method, but then claim to be in the possession of additional methods for obtaining reliable knowledge of factual matters — methods that go beyond the mere assessment of empirical evidence — such as intuition, revelation, or the reliance on sacred texts. But the trouble is this: What good reason do we have to believe that such methods work, in the sense of steering us systematically (even if not invariably) towards true beliefs rather than towards false ones? At least in the domains where we have been able to test these methods — astronomy, geology and history, for instance — they have not proven terribly reliable. Why should we expect them to work any better when we apply them to problems that are even more difficult, such as the fundamental nature of the universe? Last but not least, these non-empirical methods suffer from an insuperable logical problem: What should we do when different people’s intuitions or revelations conflict? How can we know which of the many purportedly sacred texts — whose assertions frequently contradict one another — are in fact sacred?

Well beloved subjects, wee thought that the clergie of our realme had been our subjectes wholy, but now we have well perceived that they bee but halfe our subjectes, yea, and scarce our subjectes: for all the prelates at their consecration make an othe to the pope, clene contrary to the the that they make to us, so that they seme to be his subjectes, and not ours.