Pope Quotes

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Mother, Soldier, Said

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

Sex, Why, Advice

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin Luther

Great, Heart, Self

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
Martin Luther

Antichrist, Freer

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
Pope John XXIII

Night, Remember, Problem

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Time, Dead

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Moral, Security

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Joseph Stalin

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern

Religion, Rock, Around

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII

Become, Anybody, Proof

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI

Women, Men, Before

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Desiderius Erasmus

Great, Two, Guilty

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady Gaga

Gay, Matter, Reflection

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

Order, Ultimate, Divine

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
Suzanne Fields

Faith, Death, Different

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather

Girl, Fact, Emperor

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

Nothing, Impossible, Become

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
Pope Benedict XVI

Great, Simple, Humble

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
Ben Affleck

Live, Young, Lives

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
Joseph Ratzinger

Great, Simple, Humble

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
Oriana Fallaci

Religion, Truth, True

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
Oriana Fallaci

True, Simple, Same

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.
Jerry Costello

Hope, Powerful, Human

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
Oriana Fallaci

Real, Leader, King

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo

Fight, Country, Against

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.
Horst Koehler

Moving, Christian, German

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
Michael Moore

Time, Against, Chicks

I would like to be Pope if I could.
Terry McAuliffe

The pope dies, you get another pope.
Dino De Laurentiis

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