Clergyman Quotes

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

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.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.