#pope

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#became #become #general #i #instead

The pope dies, you get another pope. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#dies #get #pope #you

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. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#am #begin #completely #decide #happens

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#battle #debut #five #june #pope

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#advice #anything #knows #pope #sex

The Pope? How many divisions has he got? ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#got #how #many #pope

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country? ↗

— Mike Norton

#christian #citizen #communism #compassion #country

The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need. The Church is one of those living forces. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#politics #pope #state #love

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#always #catholic #caused #completely #date

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones. ↗

— John Goodman

#kid #loved #old #old ones #ones