Quotes of Prelate - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Paul Goodman

“ The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move. ”

- Pope Paul VI

“ 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

“ To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. ”

- Samuel Butler

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

- Brenda Fassie

“ When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ The fact that I was a bachelor provided two opportunities or two handles that they might get on me, namely, girls or boys. ”

- Vernon A. Walters

“ 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. ”

- Horst Koehler

“ He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle. ”

- Unknown

“ To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ 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

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

- Martin Luther

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ 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. ”

- Michael Novak

“ There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop. ”

- George Orwell

“ It all began after a Pole became the pope. His words awakened the Polish nation and other nations followed. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ I would certainly hope that the new pope, having grown up in Germany and World War II, would be against war and against violence of any type. ”

- Ted Turner

“ But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. ”

- Edmond About

“ I assured the pope that in Iraq every freedom will be guaranteed to Christians. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. ”

- Voltaire

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

- George Carlin

“ The Pope? How many divisions has he got? ”

- Joseph Stalin

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

- George Bernard Shaw

“ 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

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

- Muriel Spark

“ The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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