Quotes of: Pope-john-paul-ii Keyword

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Pasquier Quesnel

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Billy Graham

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Karl Barth

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Charles Hodge

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Frederick Soddy

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

Rudolph A. Marcus

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

Kary Mullis

Now I know what the atom looks like.

Ernest Rutherford

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

Harold Urey

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Desmond Tutu

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Desmond Tutu

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

Joseph Stalin

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

Dorothy Hodgkin

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

James Lovelock

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Jeremy Taylor

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

John Dalton

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Dmitri Mendeleev

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Desmond Tutu

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick