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A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it
Martin Luther
A humble worshipper equipped with the Bible is more powerful than the most influential pontiff without it.
2.
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.
Henry VIII of England
3.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Joseph Stalin
What military might does the Pope possess?
4.
If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.
Pope Pius IX
If a future Pontiff espouses ideas that do not conform to Catholic doctrine, do not obey him.
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As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.
Jan Hus
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I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
Martin Luther
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The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.
Pope Pius V
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Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?
Joseph Stalin
9.
No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope’s statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites.
Robert Ley
10.
Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.
Lord Byron
11.
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.
Donald Trump
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Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
Michael Moore
13.
The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
Aga Khan IV
16.
One time when I played Australia I had a death threat, and they tried to keep it from me, but I found out. They had all this security backstage, outside the dressing room. I said, "What happens when I walk into the spotlight. I'm a target. So I really don't need all this. You guys can go out and sit in the audience. I think you'd be a lot more useful there." If somebody really wants to do you in nothing will stop them. It's proven by John F.Kennedy, the Pope and Ronald Reagan.
Liberace
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Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII
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"What did the pope say? I like the pope. I mean, was it good or bad?"Because if it's good, I like the pope. If it's bad, I don't like the pope.
Donald Trump
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Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.
Pope Gregory XVI
20.
You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.
Bob Odenkirk
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I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.
Pope Francis
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You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.
Farah Diba
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I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ.
George Harrison
24.
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 Benedict XVI
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The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?
Coluche
26.
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.
Michael Servetus
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Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.
Martin Luther
28.
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.
Peter Ustinov
29.
Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.
Paul Krassner
30.
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
Rebecca Solnit
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The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
Grover Cleveland
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It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the pope.
Pope Boniface VIII
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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.
Carlos Celdran
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Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
Martin Luther
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Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
Tupac Shakur
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In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
Frank Herbert
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It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.
Christoph Schonborn
39.
There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.
Rhodri Morgan
40.
After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.
Martin Luther
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Luigi Pirandello
42.
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
John Henry Newman
43.
There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.
Peter Greenaway
44.
I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.
Donald Wuerl
45.
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.
Donald Trump
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All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.
Robert Payne
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If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.
Pope Benedict XVI