Top 100 Does The Pope Sayings
#3. Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.
Pope Francis
#4. Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope
#5. The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.
Pope Francis
#6. Violence does not build up the kingdom of God, the kingdom of humanity. On the contrary, it is a favorite instrument of the Antichrist, however idealistic its religious motivation may be. It serves, not humanity, but inhumanity.
Pope Benedict XVI
#7. The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Pope John Paul II
#8. I am a woman who slept with my father the Pope.
They say I did, at least, and so does he.
And who am I to make of the Pope a liar,
And who is he to make a liar of me?
Gregory Maguire
#9. Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?
Chris Matthews
#10. The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather, it involves the proclamation of the truth of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
#11. A Christian who does not protect creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of God; that work that was born from the love of God for us ... And this is the first response to the first creation: protect creation, make it grow.
Pope Francis
#12. A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
Pope Francis
#13. The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
Pope Benedict XVI
#14. A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.
Pope Francis
#15. We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?
Pope Francis
#16. The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power
Pope Francis
#17. The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?
Pope Gregory I
#18. Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.
Richard Russo
#19. God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.
Pope Francis
#20. A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
Pope Benedict XVI
#21. Holiness does not consist in never having erred or sinned. Holiness increases the capacity for conversion, for repentance, for willingness to start again and, especially, for reconciliation and forgiveness.
Pope Benedict XVI
#22. Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
Pope Francis
#23. 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
#24. Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Pope Paul VI
#25. God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.
Pope Benedict XVI
#26. We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
Pope Paul VI
#27. There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.
Pope Francis
#28. Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one ... .
Pope John Paul II
#29. Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.
Pope Francis
#30. You're the devil," I breathed.
She eyed me, and an ever-so-fucking-fuckable smile curved on her lips. "What does that make you?
Victoria Pope
#32. For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn diversity, but it eagerly and willingly grants to each nation the right to keep and preserve the legitimate customs and traditions of its forbears.
Pope Leo XIII
#33. The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.
Pope Francis
#34. Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.
Pope Pius XII
#35. And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?
Pope Francis
#36. Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person? If we dare to really see people, in their dignity and humanity, then we shall discover the right words to say.
Pope Francis
#37. When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II
#38. The Church does not exist to condemn people but to bring about an encounter with the visceral love of God's mercy.
Pope Francis
#39. The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission ...
Pope Benedict XVI
#40. Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.
Pope John Paul II
#41. Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he, himself, does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, 'he need not be followed' ...
Pope Innocent I
#43. The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.
Pope Francis
#44. Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.
[First letter to Pope Celestine (1193)]
Eleanor Of Aquitaine
#45. Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.
Pope Francis
#46. The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.
Pope Francis
#47. No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask assistance from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness is part of our very nature.
Pope Leo XIII
#48. The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.
Pope Benedict XVI
#49. I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches. Pope Francis has come to renew the Catholic Church, and he has new air to renew the spiritual world. Now, Venezuela does not need mediation.
Nicolas Maduro
#50. The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.
Pope John Paul II
#51. The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.
Pope Francis
#52. True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.
Pope Francis
#53. How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
Barbara W. Tuchman
#54. It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.
Pope Francis
#55. I am always able to speak with him (Christ) inwardly. But I am nevertheless just a lowly little man who does not always reach all the way up to him.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
#56. We throw ourselves down, as Jesus did, before the mystery of God's power present to us, knowing that the Cross is the true burning bush, the place of the flame of God's love, which burns but does not destroy.
Pope Benedict XVI
#57. The corrupt man is the one who sins but does not repent, who sins and pretends to be Christian, and it is this double life that is scandalous. The corrupt man does not know humility, he does not consider himself in need of help, he leads a double life.
Pope Francis
#58. God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.
Pope John Paul II
#59. A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Pope Benedict XVI
#60. The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
Pope John Paul II
#61. We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?
Pope Francis
#62. The Holy Spirit is a great worker, not a 'trade unionist.' He is a great worker, and He works in us, always. He does this work of explaining the mystery of Jesus, and of giving us this sense of Christ.
Pope Francis
#63. We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI
#64. From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.
Pope Francis
#65. We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.
Pope Francis
#66. The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Pope Paul VI
#67. So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.
Pope Francis
#68. That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.
Pope Pius XII
#69. That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now ... which is significant for the world.
Pope Benedict XVI
#70. Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.
Pope Pius XI
#71. Mohammed and the pope have this principle of religion in common: they pretend that Scripture does not contain perfect doctrine, and that they receive a higher revelation from the Spirit. The
John Calvin
#72. The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it, but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.
Pope Francis
#73. When we go before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we represent the one in the world who is in most need of God's Mercy." We "Stand in behalf of the one in the world who does not know Christ and who is farthest away from God and we bring down upon their soul the Precious Blood of The Lamb.
Pope John Paul II
#74. In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.
Pope Francis
#75. Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.
Pope Francis
#76. The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward ...
Pope Francis
#77. There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!
Pope Francis
#78. A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
Alexander Pope
#79. The identity of the Antichrist is, of course, less important than the fact that there is an Antichrist. No one cares much what the Antichrist says or does, but they feel better knowing he's around. In this way, he is much like the pope or the United Nations.
Robert Kroese
#80. A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.
Pope Francis
#81. We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.
Pope Francis
#82. An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
Pope Benedict XVI
#83. This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly ... a tragedy ... what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!
Pope Francis
#84. The proclamation of Jesus is not a veneer: the proclamation of Jesus goes straight to the bones, heart, goes deep within and change us. And the spirit of the world does not tolerate it, will not tolerate it, and therefore, there is persecution.
Pope Francis
#85. Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on money and that, in comparison with money, anything else is devoid of value or dignity. This is nothing but an illusion! We cannot take money with us into the life beyond. Money does not bring us happiness.
Pope Francis
#86. The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher' ... Not that he would.
Fareed Zakaria
#87. Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.
Pope Francis
#88. Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
Pope John XXIII
#89. Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
Pope Shenouda III
#90. If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that which has been handed down and preached in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God ... let him be anathema.
Pope Martin I
#91. All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.
Pope Francis
#92. Only from God does true revolution come ... the definitive way to change the world.
Pope Benedict XVI
#93. Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Pope Paul VI
#94. Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.
Pope Francis
#95. True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
Pope John Paul II
#96. In many places an administrative approach prevails over a pastoral approach, as does a concentration on administering the sacraments apart from other forms of evangelization.
Pope Francis
#97. Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.
Pope Benedict XVI
#98. Natural marriage, therefore, is fully understood in the light of its fulfilment in the sacrament of Matrimony: only in contemplating Christ does a person come to know the deepest truth about human relationships.
Pope Francis
#99. Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil. When one does not profess Jesus Christ, one professes the worldliness of the devil.
Pope Francis
#100. A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does not change depending on their circumstances.
Pope John Paul II
