Popish Quotes & Sayings

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't. — Sue Monk Kidd

I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business. — Cullen Bunn

Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a heart attack. — Tahereh Mafi

The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Shepard decried the idolatry of the "popish" and non-Christian worlds but also the rampant false Christianity in England's own church. Indeed, it was "a harder matter to convert a man in England than in India" because most of the English assumed themselves to be Christians even though a majority were in fact reprobates.4 Shepard — Peter J. Thuesen

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual. — Charles Hodge

When the great Greek cry breaks into the Latin of the Mass, as old as Christianity itself, it may surprise some to learn that there are a good many people in church who really do say kyrie eleison and mean exactly what they say. But anyhow, they mean what they say rather more than a man who begins a letter with "Dear Sir" means what he says. "Dear" is emphatically a dead word; in that place it has ceased to have any meaning. It is exactly what the Protestants would allege of Popish rites and forms; it is done rapidly, ritually, and without any memory even of the meaning of the rite. When Mr. Jones the solicitor uses it to Mr. Brown the banker, he does not mean that the banker is dear to him, or that his heart is filled with Christian love, even so much as the heart of some poor ignorant Papist listening to the Mass. — G.K. Chesterton

Believe nothing, not even yourself. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to "commit suicide" in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae! — Neal Stephenson

If you give that gal a diamond ring, you'll get a diamond back. She's just a venom wearing denim, boy, she's always making tracks. — Junior Brown

Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them. — Kris Kristofferson

if she would not like to see Master Frederick and his new wife very much indeed? 'She's a Papist, Miss, isn't she?' 'I believe - oh yes, certainly!' said Margaret, a little damped for an instant at this recollection. 'And they live in a Popish country?' 'Yes.' 'Then I'm afraid I must say, that my soul is dearer to me than even Master Frederick, his own dear self. I should be in a perpetual terror, Miss, lest I should be converted. — Elizabeth Gaskell

When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, "Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty. — Charles Spurgeon

Yet, for I know thou art religious
And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
An idiot holds his bauble for a god
And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
Or else I will discover naught to thee. — William Shakespeare

He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, — Elizabeth Gilbert

The Little Prince : What are you doing there?
The Tippler : I am drinking.
The Little Prince : Why are you drinking?
The Tippler : So that I may forget.
The Little Prince : Forget what?
The Tippler : Forget that I am ashamed.
The Little Prince : Ashamed of what?
The Tippler : Ashamed of drinking! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit. — Dexter Holland