Famous quotes containing the words holiness, pope, benedict and/or papacy:
“In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.”
—Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)
“‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“We have done scant justice to the reasonableness of cannibalism. There are in fact so many and such excellent motives possible to it that mankind has never been able to fit all of them into one universal scheme, and has accordingly contrived various diverse and contradictory systems the better to display its virtues.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“The Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)