Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or john:
“The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)