Pope Quotes

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

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

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.

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

I would like to be Pope if I could.

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

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

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

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

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.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

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

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

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.

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

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.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

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.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

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.

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.