“ The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow… Helen Bevington
“ [:]Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the imple… Christopher Hitchens
“ He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, witho… B. Smith
“ [Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are aban… Iain Pears
“ If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solic… Christopher Hitchens
“ For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus)… Nwaocha Ogechukwu
“ It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo. John Collings Squire
“ Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.Any will do, the rabbi replied in Provençal.Splendid. Latin it is, said Pope Clement. Iain Pears
“ The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000. Peter J. Tanous
“ We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within. To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their plac… Pope Francis
“ I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel. Sean Patrick Brennan
“ 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
“ Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation... Poverty is often produced by a rejection of… Pope Benedict XVI
“ The Pope is often an embarrassment. Each Pope nurses his own foibles and follies, pet truths and pet hates, and all must be accommodated within the seamless seemingly unchanging whole of Catholic Trut… Jeanette Winterson
“ In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches. Frank Herbert
“ Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campai… Lynne Viola
