Pope Clement V Quotes

#1. Let us cleave ... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a certain place (Mk. 7:6), 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts is far from Me.'

Pope Clement I

#2. Charity unites us to God ... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.

Pope Clement I

#3. Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.

Pope Clement VIII

#4. This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

Pope Clement I

#5. The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!

Pope Clement XIII

#7. Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

Pope Clement VIII

#8. I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach to disability, and so long Latin names for congenital conditions are not relevant.

Stella Young

#9. Sometimes you have an idea and just have to move forward with it.

Corey J. Salter

#10. The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

Pope Clement I

#11. If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.

Pope Clement I

#12. I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.

Meriwether Lewis

#13. How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

Barbara W. Tuchman

#14. Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be wasted.

Pope Clement I

#15. God hates those who praise themselves.

Pope Clement I

#16. A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

Pope Clement I

#17. For us, all that's left is kisses
tattered as the little bees
that die when they leave the hive.

Osip Mandelstam

#18. We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

Pope Clement I

#19. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Heather Simmons

#20. A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Andrew O'Hagan

#21. Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

Pope Clement I

#22. A short story is a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal ... having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out ...

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen?

Nirmala Srivastava

#24. Diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.

Pope Clement XIII

#25. How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.

Pope Clement I

#26. Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Pope Clement I

#27. It is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

George Howe Colt

#28. When you walk by faith, you will claim all that God has for you, but unbelief is always content to settle for something less than God's best.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#29. Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

Pope Clement I

#30. Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

Michael Eric Dyson

#31. He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

Pope Clement I