Famous quotes containing the words paul ii, funeral, pope and/or john:
“Be not afraid!”
—John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (b. 1920)
“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Not Angles, but angels.
[Non Angli sed Angeli.]”
—Gregory the Great, Pope (c. 540–604)
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.”
—Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 6:8.