Quotes About The Papacy

#1. Calvi was sobbing. This couldn't be! A moment ago the Pope was healthy, smiling. How could His Holiness be no longer? Only a month into his papacy!

Peter J. Tanous

#2. I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.

Robert H. Schuller

#3. Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today. [to Pope Benedict XVI]

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#4. BECAUSE CATHOLICISM IS TRUE, The papacy was established by Christ, has endured, and retains the authority entrusted to it by Christ, even to this day.

Tim Staples

#5. When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

Brigham Young

#6. Fairytale: presents impossible events under possible or almost impossible conditions as though they were possible.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

Pope Leo X

#8. When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.

Elaine Sciolino

#9. Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Pope Francis

#10. I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

Thomas Huxley

#11. We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality.

Ugo Cavallero

#12. Jesus spent three decades allowing the Father to prepare Him for three short years of ministry.

Steve Shadrach

#13. Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity.

James Aitken Wylie

#14. Half Europe thought ... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.

Joseph Rickaby

#15. The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.

Alan Cumming

#16. The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

Avro Manhattan

#17. To the wickedness of the Papacy humanity owes much. The goodness of the Papacy owes a terrible debt to humanity.

Oscar Wilde

#18. There are probably a million and one regrets I have, and if they are going to be between us here or in bed, then let's just stop it now, because I'm not going to do combat over my past when my future is finally starting to be something I want to invest in.

Jay Crownover

#19. Being supportive validates accomplishments and it also validates our relationship if we show them their importance.

Kcat Yarza

#20. The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Thomas Hobbes

#21. Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

Gerda Weissmann Klein

#22. the living voice of God does not sound, pomp and ceremony, however elaborately observed, are like empty phantoms. So, we should see that papacy is so much wind.

John Calvin

#23. The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

Joseph McCabe

#24. The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#25. In the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic papacy developed into an abusive, corrupt, autocratic, totalitarian system by claiming apostolic authority through a supposed line of succession back to Peter.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#26. I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Charlotte Bronte

#27. Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!

T.F. Hodge

#28. The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Irving Babbitt

#29. The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

E. M. Forster

#30. In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

Aristotle.

#31. We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative

Kameron Hurley

#32. Never complain, pray for strength to overcome the difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

Thomas Hobbes

#34. The divine light of our hearts will brighten the days of darkness.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann